Microsoft is under no obligation to notify you or ask your permission before placing a new trusted root certificate on your Windows PC. That said, just last year Microsoft was caught in the ...

A Microsoft root certificate is expiring at the end of this month, and Microsoft warns that removing it could cause problems with the operating system. Earlier this month, BornCity reported that the ...

An Iranian hacker going by the name of 'Comodohacker' claims that Windows PCs are vulnerable to attack from malware-loaded updates digitally signed with stolen certificates. 'Comodohacker' makes the ...

In order to prevent future errors caused by the SSL scanning feature of many antivirus programs, Mozilla is performing a test that imports the Windows root certificates into Firefox. When browsing the ...

Tens of thousands of secure websites might start to display certificate errors to their visitors in January, when Microsoft plans to stop trusting 20 certificate authorities (CAs) from around the ...

Dell laptops are coming preloaded with a self-signed root digital certificate that lets attackers spy on traffic to any secure website. The reports first surfaced on Reddit and were soon confirmed by ...

Google has announced plans to run its own certificate root program/store for Chrome, in a major architectural shift for the company's web browser program. A "root program" or a "root store" is a list ...

You may have read that a rogue Certificate eDellRoot has been installed on new Dell laptops and desktop computers. This certificate is installed by the Dell ...