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A new CABF ballot proposal will eliminate all email- and phone-based DCV over the next few years. We go into the details.

DV, OV, and EV SSL certificates offer varying security levels. EV is ideal for sensitive data, OV suits small businesses, and DV provides basic encryption.

White hat researchers managed to take over WHOIS for the .mobi TLD, foretelling the death of WHOIS as an email source for Domain Control Validation (DCV).

A ballot for Multi-perspective Issuance Corroboration (MPIC), formerly known as MPDV, has entered a discussion period in the CA/Browser Forum (CABF).

With 90-day maximum term is coming for SSL certificates, we explain why we do not expect a reduction in the reuse period for organization validation.

In compliance with pending policy changes by CA/B Forum ballot SC45; Sectigo will update the circumstances under which it can employ file-based DCV.

Domain Control Validation (DCV) for SSL certificates using the "change to web site" method will be changing late this year. We explain these changes.

[This guest post originally ran on Let’s Encrypt’s blog on Nov 20, 2019.] Let’s Encrypt launched a Certificate Transparency (CT) log this past spring. We’re excited to share how we built it in hopes that others can learn from what we did. . . Sectigo…

Learn the advantages & disadvantages of free DV Certificates, and why commercial Domain Validation Certificates are worth your money.

The majority of phishing sites now use SSL certificates to closely imitate the behavior of legitimate sites. Join our hosts as we dig into these findings.

Whether implementing a single solution or a multi-layered approach, Sectigo’s diverse range of web security products deliver a full spectrum of protection.

An overview of the SSL / TLS validation process including differences for DV, OV and EV authentication levels, and causes of delayed orders.

Recent research from PhishLabs shows that more than 50% of phishing sites now use SSL certificates. This fact isn’t really surprising considering that phishing sites depend fundamentally on being confused for the genuine sites they mimic. The closer…

Sectigo offers the full range of SSL / TLS certificates including EV, OV, DV, multi-domain, UCC, and wildcard certificates.

With more than 100 million certificates issued and the widest selection of certificate options, Sectigo is the best choice for your SSL needs.

The rate of phishing attacks using a valid DV SSL certificate has grown from 450 in all of 2005 to 47,500 in the first quarter of 2017.

On September 11, 2018, a cybersecurity firm reported that it uncovered malicious code injected into the British Airways website, indicating that the hackers in the recent British Airways supply chain phishing attack made use of an increasingly common…

On September 6, 2018 The Register Domain Validation (DV) certificate describing how a team of academic security researchers successfully demonstrated that they could use a variant of DNS poisoning to obtain a Domain Validation (DV) certificate for a…