A blunder by UK business Trustico has resulted in drastic action from RapidSSL who are immediately 23,000 website certificates around the world. Trustico accidentally emailed out customers private keys, which are meant to be kept secret at all times, compromising the security of all websites affected. In retaliation RapidSSL have announced that all of their Trustico certificates will be revoked by the end of today and, unless they are replaced, will render their respective websites useless. Nick Hunter, Senior Technical Manager at Venafi commented below.
Nick Hunter, Senior Technical Manager at Venafi:
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