FPB website blocked by Firefox

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FPB website blocked by Firefox

The security certificate for the website of the Film and Publications Board (FPB) is flagged as revoked, causing Firefox to block access to the website.

Transport Layer Security certificates allow websites to establish an encrypted channel with browsers. This allows all communication between you and a website to remain private, by ensuring that it is unintelligible to would-be eavesdroppers.
 
Jamie McKane said:
FPB website blocked by Firefox

The security certificate for the website of the Film and Publications Board (FPB) is flagged as revoked, causing Firefox to block access to the website.

Transport Layer Security certificates allow websites to establish an encrypted channel with browsers. This allows all communication between you and a website to remain private, by ensuring that it is unintelligible to would-be eavesdroppers.
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FF added cancer, corruption and looting detection :unsure:
 
“We will request our IT Department to look into this and ensure that the certification is relevant for all web browsers. We apologise for the inconvenience.”
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Don't bother, the FPB is a dinosaur and rumour has it that Stella is going to get ICASAurus to devour you alive anyway.
 
Had this happen to a client's web app - their certificate was indeed revoked, it just took time to filter down to all browsers (caching perhaps?)
Started with Chrome in my case though, FF was OK for at least a week.
 
Aaaand.... it seems FF is correct!
It's just a matter of time until all browsers will block access.


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No doubt their certificate issuer will confirm the same. Not sure, but it's likely the certificate has indeed been compromised or this is a DOS attack of sorts. What I found weird about my client's situation is that there was no email to alert us, the site just stopped working at some point.

Anyone else experienced this?
 
Eric said:
Aaaand.... it seems FF is correct!
It's just a matter of time until all browsers will block access.


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No doubt their certificate issuer will confirm the same. Not sure, but it's likely the certificate has indeed been compromised or this is a DOS attack of sorts. What I found weird about my client's situation is that there was no email to alert us, the site just stopped working at some point.

Anyone else experienced this?
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letsencrypt not good enough for FPB?
 
backstreetboy said:
Who still uses Firefox?
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was my primary browser for a long time, then it went through a couple of years of just eating system resources, got so bad I thought my PC needed an upgrade ... installed Chrome and like magic, shyte started working smoothly again

but Chrome is also eating more system resources these days, switched to Brave instead, even get paid the odd R20 a month to view ads :ROFL:
 
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