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RIA: Update your security risk affected ID-Cards
The State Information System Authority (RIA) recommends that all holders of security risk affected ID-cards begin to remotely update their cards. The update software has passed the test period and most e-services already support updated…
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Updates for ID-card Security Risk in November 2017 and the Effects on e-Service Providers
The State Information System Authority has announced that due to the possible security vulnerability related to ID-cards, the electronic part of 750 000 ID-cards, residence permit cards and digi-IDs will be renewed from November. Renewed ID-card…
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ID-cards affected by the security risk can be renewed from November
The State Information System Authority has developed a security software making it possible to renew the information on ID-cards, residence permits, and digital IDs from November. ‘We are currently testing the application and we have…
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From next week, it will not be possible to use an un-renewed ID card in Google Chrome web browser
From 5 September, ID cards and residence permit cards, the certificates of which have not been renewed, can no longer be used in the new version of the Google Chrome web browser for identification and…
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What happens if the ID-card certificates are not renewed by 1 July 2017?
ID-card (incl. residence permit) certificates that have been issued before October 2014 have to be renewed by 1 July 2017. After 1 July 2017, it will only be possible to renew the certificates of those…
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The majority of electronically used ID-cards were renewed
494,000 ID-cards with a security risk, i.e. 95% of electronically used cards, were renewed by the end of March. As at 1 April, the certificates of almost 300,000 cards were revoked. The cards will still…
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Mac users can now use ID-cards with Google Chrome
This week, the new Google Chrome version 65 was made available. Mac owners who use operation systems macOS 10.13 High Sierra or 10.12 Sierra can now use their ID-cards for authentication and giving digital signatures…
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According to the law Police and Border Guard Board notified all the people whose ID-card certificates were suspended on Friday, November 3.
As of November 6 there have been 120 000 ID-card updates. During the last day 18 000 certificates have been updated. In the period of October 25 to November 6 around 92 000 people have…
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Estonia will block the certificates of 760 000 ID cards as of the evening of 3 November
Stenbock House, 2 November 2017 – At today’s cabinet meeting, the Estonian government endorsed the proposal of the Estonian Police and Border Guard Board and the Information System Authority to block the certificates of ID…
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macOS: Mozilla Firefox v60.0.1 or later does crash if you keep eID card in reader (solved 6. June 2018)
NB! to solve the issue please update the Firefox to version 60.0.2, releaseed 06.06.2018. If your computer is running on macOS op. system and if you are using Mozilla Firefox, then starting from Firefox v60.0.1…
