If you’ve encountered errors over the past month when trying to access HTTPS-enabled websites on your computer or Android phone, it might have been due to a bug in Chrome.
The bug affected the validation for some SSL certificates issued by Symantec, one of the world’s largest certificate authorities, as well as by GeoTrust and Thawte, two CAs that Symantec also controls.
The bug was introduced in Chrome version 53, but also affected the Android WebView component that Android apps use to display Web content, said Rick Andrews, senior technical director at Symantec in a blog post Friday.
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