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SSL certificate debacle includes CIA, MI6, Mossad and Tor

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Sep

2011

Last week I wrote about the compromise of digital certificate authority DigiNotar. While the idea of over 250 false certificates being issued was scary, the number has grown to 531, including what could be intermediate signing certificates. This is really bad news. As DigiNotar is a “root” certificate, they can assign authority to intermediaries to […]

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31

Aug

2011

In the Netherlands news just broke involving more details with regards to the DigiNotar compromise. According to this the following were included in the targeted domains: Yahoo.com, mozilla.org, torproject.org, wordpress.org and Iranian blogging platform Baladin. So far, I haven’t been able to verify these myself. It would be great if any of the browser makers […]

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Google blacklists 247 certificates. Is it related to DigiNotar hacking incident?

31

Aug

2011

After yesterday’s news concerning the fake certificate found in Iran that allowed an attacker to impersonate Google.com, Vasco, the parent company of certificate authority DigiNotar, released a statement explaining what happened. As is usually the case with security incidents, the statement was light on details, but claims the certificate authority was hacked and certificates for […]

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