Symantec has apologised for Google certificates which the company said were \u201cinappropriately issued\u201d.<\/p>\n
Google announced<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>on 14 September that Symantec\u2019s Thawte-branded CA issued an Extended Validation pre-certificate for the domains google.com and www.google.com.<\/p>\n \u201cThis pre-certificate was neither requested nor authorised by Google,\u201d said Google.<\/p>\n Discussions with Symantec revealed that the issuance occurred during a Symantec testing process.<\/p>\n \u201cOur primary consideration in these situations is always the security and privacy of our users; we currently do not have reason to believe they were at risk,” said Google.<\/p>\n Symantec responded<\/strong><\/a>, saying that a small number of test certificates were inappropriately issued internally for three domains during product testing.<\/p>\n \u201cThere was no direct impact to any of the domains and never any danger to the Internet,\u201d the company said.<\/p>\n \u201cFurther, we are in the process of proactively notifying the domain owners and our major partners.\u201d<\/p>\n Also see: Sustaining Digital Certificate Security<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n Let\u2019s fight ad-blockers: Google executive<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\nMore on Google<\/h3>\n