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Dutch CA suspends issuance of digital certificates

Nov

2011

Dutch Certificate Authority KPN/Getronics has announced the suspension of the issuance of digital certificates. The reason for this is that a breach has been discovered on a KPN web server related to PKI. The attack dates back no less than four years. KPN, best known for its telecom business, acquired Getronics four years ago. Former […]

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Why Diginotar may turn out more important than Stuxnet

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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Was DigiNotar’s PKIoverheid CA breached too?

Sep

2011

Earlier this week DigiNotar said another audit would be performed and the results of this audit would be made public. One of the big questions is whether the government CA branch – called DigiNotar PKIoverheid – has also been compromised. In seeming preparation of these results, the Dutch government has sent out an email to […]

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