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The SSL issue: your smart TVs, fridges and devices may stop working soon

On May 30th, Roku streaming channels experienced an unexplained disruption, leaving impacted customers clueless with no idea what was wrong.

The company advised those customers to update the devices manually:

“Due to a global technical certificate expiration, select streaming channels on the Roku platform that rely on this certificate chain may not be working as expected. Please install a manual software update from Roku now.”

The same day payment platforms Stripe and Spreedly had interruptions and blamed it on expiring Certificate Authority (CA) root certificates.

We always knew SSL certificates came with an expiration date, but we didn’t plan for the fact it’d be happening this year!

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Ax Sharma

Ax Sharma is a UK-based security researcher, journalist and TV subject matter expert experienced in malware analysis and cybercrime investigations. His areas of interest include open source software security and threat intel analysis. Frequently featured by leading media outlets like the BBC, Channel 5, Fortune, WIRED, The Register, among others, Ax is an active community member of the OWASP Foundation and the British Association of Journalists (BAJ).

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