CA/Browser Forum – a central body of web browser makers, security certificate issuers, and friends – has voted to cut the maximum lifespan of new SSL/TLS certs to just 47 days by March 15, 2029.
Today the certificates, which underpin things like encrypted HTTPS connections between browsers and websites, are good for up to 398 days before needing to be renewed. Apple put out a proposal last year to cut the maximum time between renewals, and got support from Big Tech pals.
Their argument being that shorter renewal periods mean compromised or stolen certificates can be abused for at the most days or weeks rather than months before expiring. On the one hand, that may mean more purchases from certificate issuers for cert holders; on the other, Let's Encrypt provides perfectly good certificates for free and also helps automate the renewal process.
Code-signing certificates are supposed to help authenticate the identity of software publishers, and provide cryptographic assurance that a signed piece of software has not been altered or tampered with. Both of these qualities make stolen or ill-gotten code-signing certificates attractive…
Multiple platform certificates used by Android OEM device vendors to digitally sign core system applications have also been used to sign Android apps containing malware.
In 2020, we announced we were in the early phases of establishing the Chrome Root Program and launching the Chrome Root Store.
The Chrome Root Program ultimately determines which website certificates are trusted by default in Chrome, and enables more consistent and reliable website certificate validation across platforms.
This post shares an update on our progress and how these changes help us better protect Chrome’s users.
Threat actors are using stolen NVIDIA code signing certificates to sign malware to appear trustworthy and allow malicious drivers to be loaded in Windows.
This week, NVIDIA confirmed that they suffered a cyberattack that allowed threat actors to steal employee credentials and proprietary data.
