Only Three Per Cent of SSL Certificates Are Valid
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New research conducted by security firm Qualys has revealed that only 3.17 per cent of secure web sites have valid Secure Socket Layer (SSL) certificates.The company said that it had scanned 119 million domain names, of which only 92 million were active. More than 12.4 million domains had resolving issues, and 14.6 million failed to respond.Of the 92 million active domains, 34 million domains used both port 80 (typically used for HTTP), and port 443, which is used for...
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