14 Facts About Comodo Group

Comodo Group helped on setting standards by contributing to the IETF DNS Certification Authority Authorization Resource Record.

Comodo Group announced its new headquarters in Roseland, New Jersey on July 3,2018 and its acquisition of CodeGuard, a website maintenance and disaster recovery company, on August 16,2018.

On June 29,2020, Comodo Group announced their strategic partnership with the company CyberSecOp.

Symantec responded saying that if Comodo Group is interested they should have their product included in tests by independent reviewers.

On 23 March 2011, Comodo Group posted a report that 8 days earlier, on 15 March 2011, a user account with an affiliate registration authority had been compromised and was used to create a new user account that issued nine certificate signing requests.

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Comodo Group stated that it was actively looking into ways to improve the security of its affiliates.

The new controls implemented by Comodo Group following the incident on 15 March 2011, removed any risk of the fraudulent issue of certificates.

Comodo Group believed the attack was from the same perpetrator as the incident on 15 March 2011.

Comodo Group's lacking response on the issue computer security researcher Moxie Marlinspike called the whole event extremely embarrassing for Comodo Group and rethinking SSL security.

In February 2015, Comodo Group was associated with a man-in-the-middle enabling tool known as PrivDog, which claims to protect users against malicious advertising.

In 2009 Microsoft MVP Michael Burgess accused Comodo Group of issuing digital certificates to known malware distributors.

Comodo Group responded when notified and revoked the certificates in question, which were used to sign the known malware.

Ormandy noted that Comodo Group received a "Excellence in Information Security Testing" award from Verizon despite the vulnerability in its browser, despite having its VNC delivered with a default of weak authentication, despite not enabling address space layout randomization, and despite using access control lists throughout its product.

On 24 June 2016, Comodo Group publicly posted in its forum that it had filed for "express abandonment" of their trademark applications.