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DigiNotar Certificates Revoked Following Theft

13

Sep

2011

Last year as we considered possible future threats, one of our predictions for 2011 thoughts turned to the use of stolen digital certificates becoming increasingly more common. We envisioned malicious websites and applications being signed using stolen digital certificates and validated by products and applications that fail to keep up to date with these events. […]

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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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Apple Silent on DigiNotar Certificates Hack

08

Sep

2011

DigiNotar, a certificate authority (CA) responsible for issuing digital certificates used to verify a website as authentic, announced on August 30 that hundreds of its certificates had been compromised. While others have reacted quickly, Apple is still mum on plans to protect Mac OS X or iOS users from the rogue certificates. Vendors Respond Companies […]

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