Hackaday

This Week In Security: Medical Backdoors, Strings, And Changes At Let’s Encrypt

There are some interesting questions afoot, with the news that the Contec CMS8000 medical monitoring system has a backdoor. And this isn’t the normal debug port accidentally left in the firmware. The ...
Bleeping Computer

Let’s Encrypt issued over 3 billion certificates, securing 309M sites for free

Internet Security Research Group (ISRG), the nonprofit behind Let's Encrypt, says the open certificate authority (CA) has issued its three billionth certificate this year. Let's Encrypt has been ...
Dark Reading

6 Lessons From the Expiration of the Let's Encrypt Root Certificate

On Sept. 30, a root certificate provided by digital certificate authority (CA) Let's Encrypt expired, meaning that the tens of millions of websites and devices that used the cert had to have updated ...
TechCrunch

Let’s Encrypt issues 3 billion HTTPS certificates

Nonprofit certificate authority Let’s Encrypt hit a major milestone earlier this month: it issued its three billionth HTTPS certificate. The ISRG announced this week that Let’s Encrypt issued its ...