Google Details Plan To Distrust Symantec Certificates

[Lucian Armasu]

Google published its detailed plan to distrust Symantec certificates after Symantec was caught allowing several organizations to issue certificates on its name without any oversight.

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[dark_lord69]

"entrusted several organizations with the ability to issue certificates without the appropriate or necessary oversight"
Nice, so the security guard at the door is letting all of his friends in.

 

[colin.crosbie]

I have 5 of these by startssl that are less than a year old who do I ask for a refund ?

 

[kyotokid]

...so what's left, Kaspersky or McAfee? The former is from Russia where most malware and ransomware attacks are coming from. The latter, well, other than MS's AV utilities, it is one under which I also had a system infected.

 

[justforu649]

Anti-Viruses are for noobs, haven't used one in over 15 years.

 

[kyotokid]

Anti-Viruses are for noobs, haven't used one in over 15 years.

..so aside from performing safe online practises (like I do) what else do you do?

 

[JMM72]

Symantec selling certs under the Equifax brand name. What could possibly go wrong?

 

[kyotokid]

Symantec selling certs under the Equifax brand name. What could possibly go wrong?

...citing?

Fortunately I use Sophos. as my primary AV.