Dark Reading

Companies Face Issues as Let's Encrypt Root Certificate Expires

Many websites experienced issues this week following the expiration of a root certificate provided by Let's Encrypt, a free and open certificate authority (CA) used by millions of sites. Let's Encrypt ...
Dark Reading

How to Avoid Another Let's Encrypt-Like Meltdown

The Internet should not have broken as badly as it did when one of Let’s Encrypt’s root certificates expired on Sept. 30. Although the expiration date had been known well in advance and Let’s Encrypt ...
Threat Post

Let’s Encrypt Gears Up to Replace 200M Certificates a Day

The open CA prepares for ‘worst scenarios’ with new fiber, servers, cryptographic signing and more. Let’s Encrypt just announced an infrastructure makeover which means the open certificate authority ...
Computerworld

Malvertising campaign used a free certificate from Let’s Encrypt

Cybercriminals are taking advantage of an organization that issues free digital certificates, sparking a disagreement over how to deal with such abuse. On Wednesday, Trend Micro wrote that it ...
Ars Technica

Let’s Encrypt is ending expiration notice emails—for some very good reasons

Let’s Encrypt has been providing free “wildcard” certificates for websites for nearly seven years, enabling HTTPS connections for millions of domains and doing the whole Internet a real solid. Now the ...