We have seen the first major fine hit a company for failing to meet GDPR data privacy requirements in Europe, and it’s a doozy. French data regulator CNIL has fined Google 50 million euros for its advertising personalization practices.
On January 14, 2019, we started the next planned stage of our brand transition from Comodo CA to Sectigo, issuing new customer certificates from Sectigo-branded issuing CAs under our widely trusted USERTrust root CAs.
It’s been almost a month since the US Government shut down on December 22, 2018, and while some effects of this record-breaking shutdown are obvious, others are flying under the radar — including the increased vulnerability to cybercrime faced by millions of Americans.
It's that time of year when the winter blues have consumers heading online to explore and book their next vacation. To help travelers understand what to look for when booking travel online, Sectigo rated the safety of popular travel websites across categories, providing helpful tips to avoid fraudulent sites and phishing scams, and to protect their personal data.
Last week, members of the Sectigo leadership team sat down to talk about the future of web security in 2019. Their discussion touched upon the evolution of the digital certificate field, new developments in email security standards, and the ways in which the threat landscape is expected to evolve. But in the fast-paced world of cybersecurity, there is always more to discuss. Today, a group of Sectigo leaders gathered to talk about what might be in store for the Internet of Things (IoT) in the coming year.
Congress’s recent report on the 2017 Equifax data breach reveals that an expired certificate disabled a monitoring system, allowing the attack to harvest data unchecked for more than two months.
Cybersecurity is an industry uniquely driven by innovation, as both cybercriminals and enterprise cybersecurity experts strive to create or identify the next major development that will give them a leg up over the other. In that way, predicting what comes next within the cybersecurity field provides an interesting lens on today’s threat landscape, even as it gives us a glimpse of the future. This week, a group of Sectigo leaders sat down to discuss the future of the industry and Sectigo’s place within it.
Yesterday, the world experienced major outages in its mobile networks, including loss of service for 32 million Britons on O2 and other carriers, as well as millions more in Japan and other parts of the globe. The rumor is that many private IoT networks were affected by this same outage, most of which we’ll probably never hear about.
