League of Legends players worldwide couldn't login for hours because Riot forgot to renew the client's SSL certificate—just like it did 10 years ago

The new year might mean wrestling with over-ambitious resolutions, the frustration of writing the previous year whenever ...
Security Boulevard

Sectigo New Public Roots and Issuing CAs Hierarchy [2025 Migration Guide]

The majority of certificate outages don’t begin with a breach alert. They are silent at first. One day, a browser warning ...
Datacenter Dynamics

Lengthy Megaphone podcast outage caused by Spotify failing to renew SSL certificate

A podcast hosting platform owned by Spotify experienced an eight-hour outage after the company forgot to renew its security certificate. Megaphone was acquired by Spotify for $235 million in December ...
Search Engine Roundtable

Google Forgets To Renew SSL Certificate For Conversion Tracking

Last night at Search Engine Land, I reported Google Forgot To Renew Their SSL Certificate. A WebmasterWorld thread reported the issue with https://www.googleadservices.com SSL certificate at noon (EST ...
Digital Spy

Somebody remind Instagram to renew its security certificate

If you've visited the web-based version of Instagram lately, you may have found that your web browser flagged the service up as a security risk. This is because the forgetful folk at the photo network ...
Search Engine Roundtable

Google Forgets to Renew Gmail's SMTP SSL Certificate

Google's SMTP server, smtp.gmail.com, has just expired a couple minutes ago. Here is the SSL certificate expiration notice: It appears Google has forgotten to renew the certificate, even thought a ...