HP to issue root certificate fix for webOS cloud services

“If you’ve been watching the webOS Nation Forums or the webOS community on Twitter, you may have seen the troubling reports that a vital ‘root certificate’ on webOS devices is due to expire on July 23, 2013. This certificate is responsible for ensuring secure access to HP’s webOS cloud services, including backup and the App Catalog, and once it expires, there’s no accessing those services. It’s a problem, a ticking time bomb, if you will. We’ve been wondering if or when HP was going to fix the issue, and indeed had heard rumblings that a fix was in the works and due – wait for it – in the coming weeks. Today we got word from HP that the fix is indeed coming. In fact, it’s due today, and it’s coming in the form of an update to the the webOS App Catalog.”