Google Threatens to Distrust Symantec SSL/TLS Certificates
Found on eWEEK on Saturday, 25 March 2017
"Since January 19, the Google Chrome team has been investigating a series of failures by Symantec Corporation to properly validate certificates," Ryan Sleevi, staff software engineer at Google, wrote. "Over the course of this investigation, the explanations provided by Symantec have revealed a continually increasing scope of misissuance with each set of questions from members of the Google Chrome team."
Google is set to take several actions against Symantec, including reducing the validity period of newly issued certificates to only nine months or fewer, as well as removing recognition for Symantec's Extended Validation (EV) certificates.
That's going to really hurt Symantec.