These days, it may seem that having a properly installed intermediate SSL certificate is no longer needed for your website. Although browsers like Google Chrome may automatically go out and fetch the proper intermediate go-between, other browsers like Firefox may be hit or miss, and mobile browsing may cause security warnings. Let’s break it down…
New Digicert Root Intermediate Certificates For All Symantec SSL Products
Effective on December 1, 2017, all newly issued Symantec SSL certificates (including GeoTrust, RapidSSL, Thawte, and Symantec) will now use a new Digicert signed intermediate certificate. Digicert recently acquired the certificate business from Symantec. Symantec was penalized by Google due to security issues with regards to properly vetting SSL certificates in the past. Google Chrome…
TLS 1.0 PCI Deadline – June 30, 2018
The payment card industry (PCI) council has set a deadline of June 30, 2018 to no longer have support for TLS 1.0 (an insecure SSL Protocol). After this date, any website allowing TLS 1.0 and wanting to be PCI compliant will no longer be compliant. What is TLS? TLS is a security protocol that allows…
New Website and Testing System Live!
We’re excited to unveil the new Why No Padlock website and testing system! It’s been a long time in the works, but we’ve finally revamped the site and the technology behind it to bring you: improved testing better SSL error detection easier to understand reports more tests/checks for common issues Give it a try, and…