Posts Tagged ‘certificate authority’

SSL authenticity evolution

Sep

2011

I had the good fortune to recently attend GrrCON (pronounced “Grrrr Con”), one of the larger Midwestern United States information security and hacking conferences. Moxie Marlinspike kicked off the event with his keynote presentation titled “SSL And The Future Of Authenticity.” He gave the same presentation at DEFCON, which my colleague Chester Wisniewski detailed in […]

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End of the road for DigiNotar as bankruptcy declared

Sep

2011

DigiNotar, the Dutch certificate authority which hackers compromised and used to generate hundreds of bogus web security certificates, has filed for bankruptcy.The announcement that DigiNotar has filed for voluntary bankruptcy was made today by its US parent company VASCO Data Security International.And, quite frankly, there aren’t many who will be mourning its loss.VASCO’s CEO, T. […]

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Microsoft reissues update for Win XP/2003 for DigiNotar certificate revocation

Sep

2011

Microsoft had to reissue an update for users of Windows XP and Windows 2003 today related to the compromise of certificate authority DigiNotar. It was not related to further hacking though, it appears to be a quality assurance SNAFU at the software giant. Microsoft has updated the known issues in security advisory 2607712 to refer […]

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