General SSL

CAA Checking for SSL Certificates

Nov 21, 2024

In line with the CA/B Forum's Ballot 187 - Make CAA Checking Mandatory, GlobalSign implements CAA Checking for SSL Certificates.

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How to Order a New SSL Certificate

Oct 14, 2024

This article provides step-by-step instructions for ordering a new SSL Certificate, such as a DomainSSL, OrganizationSSL, and ExtendedSSL. If this is not the solution you are looking for, please search for your solution in the search bar above.

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Customize Start and End Dates - SSL Certificates

Aug 5, 2020

Customizing the Start and End Dates of an SSL Certificate

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Securing a Public IP Address - SSL Certificates

Jul 11, 2020

Introduction An SSL certificate is typically issued to a Fully Qualified Domain Name (FQDN) such as "https://www.example.com".

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POODLE Vulnerability Affects TLS 1.0, TLS 1.1

Jul 2, 2020

It has been recently discovered that the POODLE vulnerability affects more than simply SSL 3.0. Improper checking of TLS “padding” means that the vulnerability may also be used to exploit TLS 1.0 and TLS 1.1.

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CVE-2014-0160 - Heartbleed

Jul 2, 2020

Late Monday, April 7th, 2014, a bug was disclosed in OpenSSL's implementation of the TLS heartbeat extension.

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OpenSSL - Critical Vulnerability (versions 3.0.0 to 3.0.6)

Nov 21, 2022

OpenSSL announced the discovery of a critical vulnerability, requiring a new version (3.0.7) that has been released on November 1, 2022.  Please check our blog found here for a detailed information. 

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BILLmanager - Add a New Integration Module

Nov 9, 2023

This article describes how to add a new integration module for BILLmanager.

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Removal of TLS trust bit from Roots R1 and R3 by Mozilla

Feb 19, 2024

Mozilla has announced their plans to start removing the TLS and Secure Mail trust bits from all of the older Roots in their root program.

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ICA Revocations and Remediation Steps

Sep 17, 2024

The Certificate Authority (CA) industry was alerted of compliance implications related to the inclusion of a specific extension (OCSP-signing extended key usage) in CA certificates which has, under certain conditions, unintended compliance and security implications. A number of GlobalSign Issuing CAs have been impacted by this issue. While no key compromise or security incident has taken place, we will be revoking these Issuing CA’s as part of our remediation plans in accordance with the CA/B Forum Baseline Requirements and the GlobalSign CPS. Revoked intermediate certificates can cause errors in the validation of certificates signed by these intermediate certificates.

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