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Google Says Gmail Attack Focused on Iranian Targets

30

Aug

2011

Google said late Sunday that an attack mounted against its Gmail service targeted users primarily located in Iran, although the company has taken steps to block further interception attempts. Google discovered that attackers had acquired a Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) certificate valid for any website in the google.com domain. The SSL certificate is used to […]

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DEFCON 2011: SSL and the future of authenticity

16

Aug

2011

I had the pleasure of attending Moxie Marlinspike’s DEFCON talk “SSL And The Future Of Authenticity.” Marlinspike is a great presenter and he doesn’t just point out the problems with what we are doing now, but proposes solutions, often with working proof-of-concept code. Marlinspike didn’t disappoint and began the talk with a funny story, rather […]

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Apple patches iOS interception flaw

27

Jul

2011

Apple on Monday issued a new patch that fixes a vulnerability that could allow an attacker to spoof an X.509 certificate used to encrypt web sessions on 4.3.4 iOS devices. The vulnerability related to the way Apple validates X.509 certificates and could undermine secure socket layer (SSL) and Transport Layer Security (TLS) protected sessions, Apple […]

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