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Fraudulent Google.com Certificate Causes Worries

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Aug

2011

A Dutch certificate authority, DigiNotar, has issued a fraudulent SSL certificate for google.com, which may lead to people attempting to use Google services being compromised. According to H Security, “The certificate was issued on 10 July to unknown persons in Iran.”The Electronic Frontier Foundation even states that this has led to man-in-the-middle attacks that may […]

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The bigger issue with the rogue Google SSL cert

30

Aug

2011

Today we saw the discovery of another rogue SSL certificate – this time for *.google.com. The certificate itself was issued five weeks ago. This will allow an attacker to sniff the traffic to virtually all of Google’s services even with HTTPS enabled. Right now, there’s an unconfirmed report this attack is happening in Iran. Frankly, […]

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Diginotar Hacked by Black.Spook and Iranian Hackers

30

Aug

2011

Diginotar is a Dutch Certificate Authority. They sell SSL certificates. Somehow, somebody managed to get a rogue SSL certificate from them on July 10th, 2011. This certificate was issued for domain name .google.com. What can you do with such a certificate? Well, you can impersonate Google — assuming you can first reroute Internet traffic for […]

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