All news with #certificate management tag

🔒 AWS Certificate Manager (ACM) now issues public certificates with a 198-day maximum validity, replacing the prior 395-day default to comply with the CA/Browser Forum’s 200-day mandate effective 15 March 2026. No customer action is required: new and renewed public certificates default to 198 days while existing longer-lived certificates remain valid until renewal or expiry. ACM continues to auto-renew certificates (now 45 days before expiry); existing longer-term certificates will renew 60 days before expiry and convert to the 198-day term. AWS also reduced prices for exportable public certificates to reflect the shorter validity.

🔐 Amazon MQ now supports certificate-based authentication for RabbitMQ brokers using mutual TLS (mTLS). The new capability lets brokers running RabbitMQ 4.2 and later use the auth_mechanism_ssl plugin, configured via the broker's configuration file. To enable it, create a new RabbitMQ 4.2 broker (M7g instance type) and update the configuration; the feature is available in all regions where Amazon MQ RabbitMQ 4 instances are offered.

⚠️Logitech's Options+ and G HUB apps on macOS stopped launching after their code-signing certificate expired, preventing users from accessing custom gestures, button mappings, lighting presets, and other saved settings. Logitech acknowledged the outage on its support portal and said it will push a new macOS installer that preserves user profiles without changing the visible app version. Community-proposed workarounds include rolling the system date back, installing older builds, or blocking network access, but these are unverified and may have trade-offs. Until an official update is released, users are advised not to delete configuration files to avoid losing customizations.

🔒 AWS Private CA now supports OCSP in China (Beijing, Ningxia) and AWS GovCloud (US-East, US-West) Regions. The managed OCSP responder enables real-time, per-certificate revocation checks that typically use only a few hundred bytes per query instead of downloading large Certificate Revocation Lists (CRLs), reducing bandwidth and latency. Enable OCSP through the console, AWS CLI, or API; the responder is highly available and fully managed, removing the need to operate OCSP servers, and pricing details are available in the service documentation.

🔐 AWS Certificate Manager (ACM) now automates provisioning and distribution of exportable public and private certificates directly to Kubernetes workloads via AWS Controllers for Kubernetes (ACK). The ACK controller handles the complete lifecycle — certificate request, validation, export, Kubernetes Secret creation, and automatic renewal updates. This removes the need to export certificates and rotate Secrets manually for pods, service meshes, and third-party ingress controllers. The feature supports Amazon EKS and hybrid or edge Kubernetes environments and is available in commercial, GovCloud (US), and China regions where ACM is offered.

🔒 The Chrome Root Program and the CA/Browser Forum have adopted new requirements (Ballots SC-080, SC-090, and SC-091) to phase out 11 legacy Domain Control Validation methods. These deprecated checks — including email, fax, SMS, postal mail, phone-based contacts, and reverse lookup methods — are being retired to reduce the risk of fraudulent certificate issuance. The policies update the TLS Baseline Requirements and encourage stronger, automated, cryptographically verifiable methods such as ACME, with full security value realized by March 2028 while operators transition.

🔒 Johnson Controls reported an improper validation of certificate expiration in iSTAR access control panels that can prevent devices from re-establishing communication when the default certificate expires. The flaw, tracked as CVE-2025-61736, carries a CVSS v4 base score of 7.1 and a CVSS v3.1 score of 6.5. Affected units are those running versions prior to TLS 1.2. Recommended mitigations include deploying host-based certificates, migrating clusters to TLS 1.3 (requires firmware/C•CURE updates), or upgrading legacy panels to G2 hardware.

🔐 Shorter maximum TLS certificate lifespans are imminent: starting 15 March 2026 the limit drops from 398 days to 200 days, then to 100 days a year later and eventually to 47 days by 2029. CISOs should prioritize complete, continuously updated certificate inventories and move to automated issuance and renewal — ideally via ACME — to avoid outages. Centralized governance, percentage-based renewal policies, and integrated alerts tied to ticketing systems reduce human error and operational risk.

🔒 AWS Private Certificate Authority now supports partitioned Certificate Revocation Lists (CRLs) to scale revocation handling up to 100 million certificates per CA. Partitioning breaks revocation data into ~1 MB CRL partitions and binds certificates to partitions using a critical Issuer Distribution Point (IDP) extension, allowing validators to match CDP and IDP URIs for accurate checks. The feature is backward compatible, RFC5280-compliant, configurable in the console (including S3 setup), and carries no charge beyond AWS Private CA and Amazon S3 usage.

🔒 This AWS Security post explains two approaches to make certificate revocation lists (CRLs) available only to internal systems without exposing the S3 CRL bucket to the public internet. The first approach relocates CRLs by using a custom CDP CNAME and an EventBridge‑triggered Lambda that copies generated CRLs from the ACM Private CA S3 bucket to an internal store, with SNS notifications and example Python code. The second approach confines CRL retrieval inside AWS by using a VPC Gateway S3 endpoint, tightly scoped S3 bucket policies, and private Route 53 DNS so CRLs are resolvable and retrievable only from within the VPC.

🔐 AWS Private CA now supports the post-quantum digital signature algorithm ML-DSA (NIST FIPS 204), enabling organizations to create CAs and issue certificates designed to resist quantum attacks. The feature lets you test certificate issuance, identity verification, and code signing using ML-DSA, and supports CRLs and OCSP responders. Availability spans all commercial AWS Regions, AWS GovCloud (US), and China Regions to help teams begin transitioning PKI toward post-quantum cryptography.

🚨 The October 2025 Windows security update KB5066835, intended to move cryptography from CSP to KSP, is causing widespread enterprise disruption. Affected platforms — including Windows 10 (22H2), Windows 11 (23H2–25H2) and several Windows Server releases — report smartcard and certificate failures, USB mouse/keyboard loss in WinRE, IIS ERR_CONNECTION_RESET and WUSA installation errors. Microsoft published a registry workaround (DisableCapiOverrideForRSA=0) and an out‑of‑band update (KB5070773) for some issues, but urges caution and recommends thorough testing before broad deployment.

🔐 This post explains how to configure customer trust stores to accept public certificates issued through AWS Certificate Manager (ACM) and clarifies the role of Amazon Trust Services. It warns that ACM issues certificates via dynamically selected intermediates, so trusting only intermediates or pinning end-entity certificates can cause outages. The recommended action is to install five Amazon root CAs in your trust stores and to validate configuration across Windows, Amazon Linux, and Java environments.

🔐 AWS Managed Microsoft AD now supports certificate auto-enrollment for LDAPS and Smart Card authentication by integrating with AWS Private CA through the AWS Private CA Connector for AD. The integration automates issuance, renewal, and lifecycle management of domain controller certificates, removing the need to maintain CA infrastructure on Amazon EC2. This capability is available in all Regions offering the connector and can be configured via the console or API.

🔒 Cloudflare reported that Fina CA issued twelve unauthorized TLS certificates for the public DNS IP 1.1.1.1 between February 2024 and August 2025. All certificates have been revoked and Cloudflare found no evidence they were used maliciously, noting that successful impersonation would also require client trust in Fina and interception of traffic. The misissuance was detected via Certificate Transparency logs, and Cloudflare is improving alerts, monitoring, and triage to prevent similar lapses.

🔒 AWS Certificate Manager (ACM) now supports AWS PrivateLink, enabling access to ACM APIs from within an Amazon VPC without traversing the public internet. You can create interface endpoints to connect your VPC to ACM using the AWS Management Console, AWS CLI, or AWS CloudFormation. This private connectivity is available in all Regions where ACM and PrivateLink are supported, including AWS GovCloud (US) and China Regions, and helps meet compliance requirements by keeping API traffic inside the AWS network.