Hackers issued counterfeit TLS certificates for Google and other major services, while a former Twitter security chief blew the whistle on systemic failures at the platform. Both incidents expose a growing gap between…

The breach involved three domain registries that allowed attackers to walk away with unauthorized certificates, effectively letting them impersonate Google and other large services in encrypted traffic. In a separate …

TLS certificates are the digital passports that browsers check before opening a secure connection. When a certificate is forged, the browser sees a valid chain of trust and users unwittingly send credentials to a mali…

Google’s own security team confirmed that the bogus certificates were not issued by its internal PKI. The certificates carried valid signatures, meaning standard browser checks would not flag them. Attackers could hav…