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Summer months turned out to be quite hot for LeaderTelecom experts. The internal kitchen was just boiling - we laid the foundation for numerous improvements, innovations, and introduced several useful features, which, no doubt, will be appreciated by every customer. Keep reading to get familiar with what we worked all summer.

According to the latest updates of the CA/B Forum rules, which is acting as the SSL industry regulator, SSL issuing certification authority (such as Symantec, GeoTrust, Thawte or RapidSSL) must be listed in the CAA DNS domain record.

Until recently, certifying authorities were able to delegate the domain/IP verification process to third-party companies. Gervase Markham (Mozilla), as well as Ryan Sleevi (Google) and Mike Reilly (Microsoft) decided to make a proposal to the CA / B Forum about forbidding such practice.

We still recall what consequences Symantec was threatened by representatives of leading browsers due to the erroneous issuance of SSL certificates. There were different sanctions offered, as the industry did not want to leave Symantec actions without attention. According to Symantec statements in the blog, they determined to overcome any obstacles. However, recently Symantec decided to change their strategy. Symantec posted in their online blog that the company decided to sell part of its business associated with SSL certificates to DigiCert.

Chrome developers revealed a roadmap for gradual distrust in Symantec certificates after a large-scale discussion, caused by the fact that Symantec certificates were issued incorrectly.