Code signing is a mechanism by which software manufacturers assure their consumers that they are running legitimate software, signed by its manufacturer via cryptography. This ensures that the ...

Microsoft Defender is detecting legitimate DigiCert root certificates as Trojan:Win32/Cerdigent.A!dha, resulting in ...

Microsoft fixed a Defender false positive that flagged legitimate DigiCert certificates as malware, disrupting Windows trust ...

Microsoft Defender “Cerdigent” alerts may stem from DigiCert certificate abuse, not active malware infections.

Microsoft has announced that it now supports Extended Validation (EV) code signing certificates for desktop programs for the SmartScreen feature in Windows 8, IE 9 and IE 10. Downloading programs via ...

GitHub says unknown attackers have stolen encrypted code-signing certificates for its Desktop and Atom applications after gaining access to some of its development and release planning repositories.

NVIDIA certificates are being used to sign malware, enabling malicious programs to pose as legitimate and slide past security safeguards on Windows machines. Two of NVIDIA’s code-signing certificates ...

In a ham-fisted move that threatens computer users everywhere, developers at router manufacturer D-Link published a private cryptography key used to certify that software is trustworthy and not ...

The industry is moving from SHA-1 certification to SHA-2, and if you sign code you need to be aware of the changes afoot. In a nutshell, you will probably want to get an SHA-2 certificate before Dec.

Eighteen years ago, a code-signing issue with Small Business Server 2003 caused problems for early installations. Last week, a similar problem cropped up in Windows 11. Once upon a time in technology, ...

As the IT industry is working to phase out the aging SHA-1 hashing algorithm it’s not just website owners and software developers who are scrambling to replace their digital certificates: ...