Facebook is working toward better security. Today they announced some important deadlines to their developer community that will make users safer and make secure Facebooking a more seamless experience. In the meantime, change your password. Facebook will be eliminating the[...]
Reports are coming out that the Syrian Telecom Ministry (who is behind this attack is as of yet unconfirmed) is performing a man-in-the-middle attack on SSL protected Facebook sessions originating in Syria. Users are getting a phony SSL certificates when[...]
Hackers are using the news about the death of Osama bin Laden to spread malware and to capture your information. Facebook has been used in addition to the usual search engine and spam email methods for spreading this type of[...]
Happy Earth Day, everyone. We love to support Earth friendly activities here at Thawte. Did you know that Thawte celebrated the winter holidays last year by donating to americanforests.org? With Thawte’s support, 5,000 new trees were planted! And we are[...]
Be Part of the Solution for Human-Elephant Conflict There is a lot of controversy in the press and the social mediasphere right now about the hunting of elephants in Africa. Thawte was founded in and is still mostly operated out[...]
The .eu domain just celebrated 5 years of existence. Happy Birthday! Thawte loves .eu! The .eu registry has 3.4 million registrations. Maybe its time to get yours? Here’s the birthday video from the EURid.
What is going on?! The EU has had a tough time recently when it comes to cyber attacks. First that huge shutdown of the European carbon emissions registries, then the attacks on the French government, and now the EU Parliament[...]
In recent days, the press has been writing about a security hack that resulted in a handful of fraudulent Comodo SSL certificates issued for Google, Firefox, Hotmail, Yahoo and Skype. The story itself is full of interesting conjecture, including concerns[...]
Google is expanding its SSL adoption again. Gmail and Google Docs already use SSL but now Google will expand their use of SSL security for developer APIs. Many Google developer facing API technical documentation, client libraries and code samples are[...]
Twitter users now get better protection against Firesheep and similar WiFi hacking schemes. Starting today they can now set their accounts for always on SSL (aka HTTPS). By changing their security setting to always on HTTPS, Twitter users make sure[...]
