Sustaining Digital Certificate Security – Entrust Certificate Distrust (Google Online Security Blog)

Actualités, Sécurité
Posted by Chrome Root Program, Chrome Security Team The Chrome Security Team prioritizes the security and privacy of Chrome’s users, and we are unwilling to compromise on these values. The Chrome Root Program Policy states that CA certificates included in the Chrome Root Store must provide value to Chrome end users that exceeds the risk of their continued inclusion. It also describes many of the factors we consider significant when CA Owners disclose and respond to incidents. When things don’t go right, we expect CA Owners to commit to meaningful and demonstrable change resulting in evidenced continuous improvement. Over the past several years, publicly disclosed incident reports highlighted a pattern of concerning behaviors by Entrust that fall short of the above expectations, and has eroded confidence in their competence, reliability,…
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Virtual Escape; Real Reward: Introducing Google’s kvmCTF (Google Online Security Blog)

Actualités, Sécurité
Marios Pomonis, Software Engineer Google is committed to enhancing the security of open-source technologies, especially those that make up the foundation for many of our products, like Linux and KVM. To this end we are excited to announce the launch of kvmCTF, a vulnerability reward program (VRP) for the Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) hypervisor first announced in October 2023. KVM is a robust hypervisor with over 15 years of open-source development and is widely used throughout the consumer and enterprise landscape, including platforms such as Android and Google Cloud. Google is an active contributor to the project and we designed kvmCTF as a collaborative way to help identify & remediate vulnerabilities and further harden this fundamental security boundary.  Similar to kernelCTF, kvmCTF is a vulnerability reward program designed to help…
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