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17 May 2018
On May 25th, 2018 the new European privacy law takes effect, called the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Exactly what will change for you as a customer, and in terms of SSL? Why this new law? A lot has been written about it: the GDPR, which replaces the seperate national Data Protection laws from all European member states based ...
14 May 2018
Researchers have found a vulnerability in the most common techniques for email encryption: PGP and S/MIME. This announcement was published under the name EFAIL. You can continue to use S/MIME for encrypted email, but it is advisable to adjust a number of settings in your email software and to update as soon as possible. What does the vulnerability ...
23 March 2018
From now on it is prohibited to alter company data in a Comodo certificate after issuance. Comodo applied this policy change to all Comodo certificates. Why these changes? For altering certificate data, re-validation and issuance of a certificate is necessary. Limiting these options will reduce the chance for errors, and should result in a faster issuance process and enhanced ...
23 March 2018
In recent years the Xolphin team has expanded considerably. That is why, after months of hard work, we are moving to a new office in Alkmaar per monday, March 26th. Why are we moving? From the start in 2002 Xolphin has grown steadily. Due to our focus on fast, high quality and multilingual service and the growing demand for SSL ...
9 February 2018
Google announced that Chrome version 68, expected by July 2018, will display all websites without an SSL certificate as insecure. What will change, exactly? From July this year, Google Chrome will no longer mark a page as insecure based on whether it contains input fields or not. Instead, a warning will be displayed on all pages that do not use ...
31 January 2018
In 2017, we’ve put a lot of effort into renewing Xolphin’s ISO 27001:2013 and WebTrust certification, as well as achieving the ISO 9001:2015 certification. We are glad to announce that we received all three certifications from Ernst & Young on December, 14. What are ISO certifications? ISO 27001:2013 is the international ISO standard for information ...
19 January 2018
The guidelines for issuing SSL certificates will be tightened from March 1. From this date onwards, the CA / Browser forum allows a maximum validity period of 825 days (approximately 27 months) for all SSL certificates. Applying for certificates with a longer duration is no longer possible from that time. What does this mean for new applications? This change applies to ...
13 December 2017
Since December 2017 SSL certificates from Symantec, GeoTrust and Thawte are being issued by DigiCert. Due to the deadlines set by browsers, millions of certificates worldwide have to be validated and issued again. As a result, the delivery time of Symantec, GeoTrust and Thawte certificates is currently longer than usual. All Symantec, GeoTrust and Thawte certificates issued before the 1st ...
31 October 2017
Today, Fransisco Partners announced they have purchased a share in Comodo Group’s Certificate Authority division. Comodo products and brands will remain maintained. What has changed exactly? Comodo has sold a majority share of their certificate division to US-based technology investment firm Francisco Partners. Comodo’s Certificate Authority division will operate independently to expand and optimize their SSL certificate ...
24 October 2017
Google Chrome has increased the warnings shown to users when visiting insecure HTTP websites without an SSL certificate as of version 62. Chrome has been showing such warnings since January 2017 for fields related to passwords, credit card data and the like. In the new version, Chrome shows this warning for any insecure field. Which warnings were already shown? Starting ...
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