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The Root Causes podcast explores the important issues behind today’s world of PKI, online trust, and digital certificates. Research from two esteemed universities shows that sites with EV SSL certificates are much less likely to be engaged in criminal behavior like malware and phishing. And yet, leading browsers are reducing or removing EV information from the interface. In this episode, our hosts Jason Soroko (CTO of PKI, Sectigo) and Tim Callan (Senior Fellow, Sectigo) explore the research results, this paradoxical browser behavior, and its likely effect on consumer security.

The Root Causes podcast explores the important issues behind today’s world of PKI, online trust, and digital certificates. In this episode hosts Jason Soroko (CTO of IoT, Sectigo) and Tim Callan (Senior Fellow, Sectigo) describe Germany’s pending safe browsing guidelines and what they may mean for businesses in Europe and beyond.

(Lightly edited for flow and brevity, this podcast originally appeared July 18, 2019.)

In a social engineering attack, a bad actor uses human interaction (social skills) to acquire information about a company and/or its computer systems. Attackers often seem unassuming and respectable, often claiming to be a new employee, a service technician, or a member of the service-providing company and may even offer credentials to support that identity.

A full year has passed since our November 2018 rebrand. As Sectigo turns one, the company stands proud of its innovations, growth, thought leadership, transparency, and commitment to customer success.

More than 90% of data breaches start with a phishing attack. Being able to spot phishing scams starts with knowing what motivates fraudsters. Here are the most common tactics used in email phishing and how to avoid becoming a victim.

In recent years, hospitals and medical facilities have been successfully targeted by cyber crooks looking to exploit or wreak havoc on the healthcare sector and its patients. The costs of inaction, from ignoring embedded device security, to lax email security, can be steep.