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Security Threats

SSL protects your traffic only when it is configured and maintained correctly. These articles explain the threats that target or exploit weak certificate setups, including man-in-the-middle and downgrade attacks, rogue certificate authorities, subdomain takeover, outdated TLS versions and weak cipher suites. You will also learn how revocations, root store updates and certificate authority outages can affect your sites without warning.

Post-Quantum SSL Certificates – Preparing Your Systems

Post-Quantum SSL Certificates – Preparing Your Systems

Quantum computers capable of breaking RSA-2048 and ECC-256 don’t exist yet, but the cryptography underlying nearly every …

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How to Detect Downgrade Attacks Against Your SSL Setup

How to Detect Downgrade Attacks Against Your SSL Setup

Downgrade attacks trick a client and server into negotiating a weaker, older version of TLS or a …

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Rogue Certificate Authority Attacks – Detection Guide

Rogue Certificate Authority Attacks – Detection Guide

Picture a certificate showing up in the Certificate Transparency logs for your domain that nobody on your …

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The BEAST and POODLE Attacks – What Admins Must Know

The BEAST and POODLE Attacks – What Admins Must Know

BEAST and POODLE might sound like relics from a decade-old security conference, but both attacks still show …

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How Browser Root Store Updates Affect Your SSL Certs

How Browser Root Store Updates Affect Your SSL Certs

Browser vendors like Google, Mozilla, Apple, and Microsoft each maintain their own root certificate store, and periodically …

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The Risks of Using Outdated TLS Versions on Your Server

The Risks of Using Outdated TLS Versions on Your Server

Running outdated TLS versions on your server is one of the most common and underestimated security risks …

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Why Subdomain Takeover Is a Hidden SSL Security Risk

Why Subdomain Takeover Is a Hidden SSL Security Risk

Subdomain takeover is one of the most underestimated SSL security risks organizations face today.

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Why Root Certificate Expiration Causes Widespread Outages

Why Root Certificate Expiration Causes Widespread Outages

Why root certificate expiration causes widespread outages is a topic that catches many infrastructure teams off guard.

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How to Prevent Man-in-the-Middle Attacks with Proper SSL Setup

How to Prevent Man-in-the-Middle Attacks with Proper SSL Setup

How to prevent man-in-the-middle attacks with proper SSL setup is a topic every sysadmin and DevOps engineer …

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Why Monitoring SSL Certificate Issuer Changes Matters

Why Monitoring SSL Certificate Issuer Changes Matters

SSL certificate issuer changes are one of the quieter threats in web security – easy to miss, …

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How Weak SSL Cipher Suites Put Your Website at Risk

How Weak SSL Cipher Suites Put Your Website at Risk

Weak SSL cipher suites create dangerous security vulnerabilities that expose sensitive data to cybercriminals and compliance violations.

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How Expired SSL Certificates Affect Email Deliverability

How Expired SSL Certificates Affect Email Deliverability

Expired SSL certificates create unexpected barriers for email delivery that many administrators don’t anticipate until it’s too …

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Why Certificate Authority Outages Affect Your Website Security

Why Certificate Authority Outages Affect Your Website Security

When a Certificate Authority goes down, your SSL certificates don’t just stop working in obvious ways – …

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SSL Certificate Revocation: Detection and Response Strategies

SSL Certificate Revocation: Detection and Response Strategies

Imagine this: it’s a Tuesday morning, you’re sipping your coffee, and you get an alert that your …

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The Security Risks of Expired SSL Certificates You Can't Ignore

The Security Risks of Expired SSL Certificates You Can’t Ignore

Let me tell you about a weekend I’d rather forget. I was enjoying a quiet Saturday morning …

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