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The keys of eight eMudhra intermediate CAs turned out to be weak. Major browsers blocked them within days, and about 30,000 certificates must be replaced.
The first new gTLD round since 2012 drew 1,615 applications, including 333 brand extensions. Brand owners should watch the list from 17 November.
Attackers took over three country registries, changed DNS, and obtained 12 valid TLS certificates for Google domains. Important lessons on domain locks and CAA.
CA/Browser Forum rules cut certificate lifetimes step by step to 47 days by 2029. Renewing by hand once a year is no longer enough.
The implementing regulation of Indonesia's Personal Data Protection Law is out. Breaches must be reported within 3×24 hours; fines reach 2% of revenue.
PANDI targets 1.5 million .id domains in 2026 while acting on tens of thousands of abusive URLs. High-risk sites can be suspended within 24 hours.
Since November 2025 Gmail rejects non-compliant mail, and Outlook has enforced similar rules since May 2025. Your business email needs checking.
Two reasons to check your hosting now: a PHP version about to lose security updates, and a CVSS 9.8 flaw in cPanel/WHM.
Four major outages in the past year were caused by configuration changes and bugs, not attacks. Even small websites go down when everything depends on one provider.
According to Cloudflare, 52% of crawler requests in June 2026 came from AI training bots. Site owners can now choose: allow search engines, refuse AI training.
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