{"id":380662,"date":"2020-12-19T10:30:26","date_gmt":"2020-12-19T08:30:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=380662"},"modified":"2020-12-19T10:31:58","modified_gmt":"2020-12-19T08:31:58","slug":"fpb-website-blocked-in-firefox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/380662-fpb-website-blocked-in-firefox.html","title":{"rendered":"FPB website blocked by Firefox"},"content":{"rendered":"

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.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

While Firefox is outright blocking access to the FPB website, other major browsers including Chrome, Edge, and Opera appear to ignore the error.<\/p>\n

This raises questions about whether there is just a glitch in Firefox causing a problem, or whether there is a genuine issue with the TLS certificate of the FPB website.<\/p>\n

Verifying problems with the FPB website security certificate<\/h3>\n

Running the FPB website through the Qualys SSL Labs testing tool<\/a><\/strong> confirms that its security certificate is not trusted.<\/p>\n

MyBroadband also manually checked the details of the certificate using the openssl<\/code> suite of tools.<\/p>\n

It confirmed that the current certificate assigned to the FPB website was issued on 2 October 2020 and is valid for a year.<\/p>\n

The FPB uses a certificate authority called Certum by Asseco, which is based in Poland.<\/p>\n

Checking the certificate with the Online Certificate Status Protocol shows that it was revoked on the morning of 20 October 2020.<\/p>\n

“Thank you for bringing this to our attention,” the FPB said in response to MyBroadband’s questions about its TLS certificate.<\/p>\n

“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.”<\/p>\n

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Now read: Netflix must now follow FPB ratings rules<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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