I have about three hours of research notes and the information that Avast is using DigiCert products did not show up in any of the many, many leads I checked.
But it is now out there, because I suspect the bots have picked up on this thread, and my own team on my site now knows about this, so this information isn't going away. But our online meetings on my site are strictly confidential, so nothing gets leaked from there.
Also, during my research I found that there have been some folks in this business that have doubts about DigiCert products. There have been such discussions on this site, too.
For that reason the Avast customers probably should have already been informed of what we now have in this thread.
And that is just for starters.
By the way,
now I
am worried. I wasn't before.
By the way, this all started because of that other thread and that signature code showing up in a regular Gmail account. If any of the employees had gone to the trouble to address that issue in that thread I might never have started down this DigiCert road I have gotten on. I waited for a fair number of business days for an answer to arrive in that thread, so it isn't like I was pushing really hard. And I still haven't gone into that at Google, except informally. Also in confidence.
Did you know the following,
Asyn?
August 2017 was relatively slow on the M&A front. Symantec sold its website security business to DigiCert for $1 billion, plus a stake in the larger entity.
A lot of money at stake if somebody slips up.
