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GlobalSign gives itself clean bill of health after Iranian hacker’s braggadocio

12

Sep

2011

Following the widely-publicised disgrace of Dutch digital certificate issuer DigiNotar, a person calling himself ComodoHacker claimed that he’d breached four other Certificate Authorities (CAs), too. Only one of these CAs was named: GlobalSign, the world’s fifth-biggest issuer of digital certificates. In my opinion, GlobalSign would have been justified in ignoring this claim altogether. It comes […]

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Operation Black Tulip: Fox-IT’s report on the DigiNotar breach

06

Sep

2011

Fox-IT, the security auditors hired to investigate the compromise of DigiNotar, the digital certificate authority that signed fraudulent certificates for Google, the CIA and others, released their preliminary findings this afternoon. It’s at least as bad as many of us thought. DigiNotar appears to have been totally owned for over a month without taking action, […]

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SSL certificate debacle includes CIA, MI6, Mossad and Tor

05

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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