Dutch spies, Russian hackers and Jared Kushner’s iPhone. It sounds like the ingredients for a thriller, but according to claims in a new book the US President's son-in-law may have been hacked twice. Is any of it true, and what does it tell us about the phones in our pockets? Meanwhile, James Ball explains that of the internet’s most trusted security keys were protected by numbers so small that one of them was... four. Yes, "4". And then, of course, to make the week worse we suffered a PHPocalpyse... Plus, Chuck Randolph of 360 Privacy explains how the internet has made it scarily easy to put company executives and public officials in danger. All this and more in episode 490 of the “Smashing Security” podcast with cybersecurity expert and keynote speaker Graham Cluley, and special guest James Ball.

DigiCert G1 Retirement 2026: A Turning Point in Web PKI Evolution Mozilla and Google Chrome will revoke the G1 root certificates of DigiCert on April 15, 2026. When the certificate you are using TLS chains to one of those roots, the browsers immediately do not trust it. A security warning is shown to your users.Read More

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Beginning March 2026, Certificate Authorities (CAs) must verify DNSSEC signatures during CAA evaluation and Domain Control Validation (DCV) if DNSSEC has been enabled on the domain. This change has been approved by the CA/Browser Forum through the CA/B Forum Ballot SC-085v2 (TLS) and SMC014 (S/MIME). With this change, DigiCert has started validating DNSSEC during theRead More

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