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Whitepaper May 26, 2020
Sectigo Evolution of IoT Attacks study exposes the arms race between cybercriminals and cybersecurity between 2005 to 2020.
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Press Release May 26, 2020
Sectigo “Evolution of IoT Attacks” Study Chronicles Attacks on Cars, Infrastructure, Medical, and Other Connected Devices, Leading to ‘Era of Protection’
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Podcast Mar 26, 2020
Root Causes 78: Extended Validation Certificates and the Dark Web
Learn about research indicating that criminal marketplaces feature services to obtain original Extended Validation (EV) SSL certificates.
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Podcast Nov 22, 2019
Root Causes 52: New TLS Certificate Incident Research
Indiana University Bloomington recently published public SSL research, including methodology, incident types and causes, and rogue certificates.
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Podcast Aug 15, 2019
Root Causes 32: Why Do Browsers & Academics Say Differently About EV?
Research shows that sites with Extended Validation SSL certificates are less likely for malware and phishing. So why do browsers say it isn't effective?
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News Article Aug 01, 2019
Probability That an EV SSL Certificate Is Associated with a Bad...
New research conducted by the Georgia Institute of Technology Cyber Forensics Innovation (CyFI) Laboratory confirms that a website with a company-branded address bar greatly decreases the chance of internet users falling victim to a malware attack or phishing scam.
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News Article Jul 31, 2019
To conduct the study, researchers at the CyFI Lab cross-correlated a global repository of web domains with EV certificates against an aggregation of web domains associated with malware, suspicious activity blacklists, and underground marketplace communications.
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Press Release Jul 30, 2019
New research conducted by the Georgia Institute of Technology Cyber Forensics Innovation (CyFI) Laboratory confirms that a website with a company-branded address bar greatly decreases the chance of internet users falling victim to a malware attack or phishing (fraud) scam.
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Blog Post Jul 29, 2019
Online criminal actors reveals that domains with EV SSL certificates are 99.99% likely to be unassociated with bad cyber actors. CyFI studied 2.6 million domains associated with EV SSL to arrive at these results.
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Blog Post Mar 12, 2019
New Research Regarding Online Criminal Marketplaces for Certificates
A recent study by Georgia State University suggests that criminal online marketplaces feature a steady supply of TLS / SSL certificates from all major public CAs. Sectigo is eager to work with researchers like these and others to help reveal criminal activity and create strategies to mitigate its effectiveness without preventing legitimate business from benefiting from public certificates.
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Datasheet Oct 29, 2018
DevOps.com found that site visitors using both desktop and mobile browsers are more likely to engage with sites displaying green address bars.
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Press Release May 16, 2018
Leading Certificate Authority Aims to Help Businesses and Consumers Worldwide Increase Security of Professional and Personal Internet Usage and Prevent Potential Loss of Business