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Why Diginotar may turn out more important than Stuxnet

05

Sep

2011

In an almost unprecedented event the Dutch minister of internal affairs gave a press conference at 1:15 AM Friday to Saturday night. He announced the Dutch government was revoking trust in Diginotar. Diginotar basically consisted of two seperates branches. One branch was a certificate authority which dealt with regular businesses. The other branch was focused […]

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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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DigiNotar CA compromise

31

Aug

2011

SSL certificates are used to validate the identity of a website to users. Over the weekend, it was found that DigiNotar, a Dutch Certificate Authority, had issued a rogue SSL certificate for *.google.com. Today, this was confirmed by DigiNotar in a press release.According to DigiNotar’s own investigation, they found out that they were compromised on […]

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