GoDaddy Forces Mass TLS Certificate Reset After Compliance Lapse Hits 400,000+ Sites
GoDaddy has revoked more than 404,000 SSL/TLS certificates issued under its GoDaddy and Starfield chains after discovering the certificates did not match its published certificate policies, then missed...
Compromised eMudhra CA Keys Force Emergency Trust-Store Updates
Eight eMudhra intermediate certificate-authority keys were shown to be compromised, triggering emergency blocks across browsers and software ecosystems. Browsers update quickly, but applications with bundled or stale trust...
AWS Sets a Multi-Year Countdown to Kill Off Email-Based Certificate Validation
Amazon is phasing out email validation for public TLS certificates issued through AWS Certificate Manager, with new-Region restrictions starting in 2027 and a full industry-wide browser distrust deadline...
Certighost Flaw Let Ordinary Users Impersonate Domain Controllers and Seize Active Directory
A newly patched Active Directory Certificate Services bug, dubbed Certighost, let any low-privileged domain user trick a certificate authority into treating a rogue machine as a real Domain...
Let’s Encrypt Halts All Certificate Issuance After Cross-Signed Root Certificate Incident
Let's Encrypt temporarily suspended all certificate issuance on May 8, 2026, after engineers identified a critical issue with a cross-signed certificate linking its Generation X root to its...