Respondents in a survey from Venafi said they believe voting machines, encrypted communications from polling stations and databases that store voter registration data are all vulnerable.

A bug in GoDaddy’s domain validation process forced the registrar to revoke SSL certificates and reissue certs for more than 6,000 customers.

Google released its final SHA-1 deprecation deadlines, and crypto services provider Venafi said that 35 percent of the web is still running weak SHA-1 certificates.

Crypto company Venafi points out potential holes in Yahoo’s processes and policies around cryptography and digital certificates, any of which could have been exploited in the breach to move data off the Yahoo network.

Amazon is getting into the certificate game. The company announced late last week that it launched a certificate manager to expedite the process of securing SSL/TLS certificates for customers looking to add HTTPS to their sites or apps. The move comes less than a year after Amazon applied to Mozilla and the Android Open Source...