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Fraudulent Google.com Certificate Causes Worries

30

Aug

2011

A Dutch certificate authority, DigiNotar, has issued a fraudulent SSL certificate for google.com, which may lead to people attempting to use Google services being compromised. According to H Security, “The certificate was issued on 10 July to unknown persons in Iran.”The Electronic Frontier Foundation even states that this has led to man-in-the-middle attacks that may […]

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Falsely issued Google SSL certificate in the wild for more than 5 weeks

30

Aug

2011

Update: Mozilla have announced out of an abundance of caution that they are releasing new versions of Firefox, Firefox Mobile and Thunderbird to revoke the trust of DigiNotar’s root certificate for signing certificates. I presume this is because DigiNotar has not explained how the Google certificate was signed and to prevent further abuse. This could […]

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Mrs. Gaddafi offers 40 million dollars for safekeeping

29

Aug

2011

Imagine my surprise this morning when I received an email from the second wife of Muammar Gaddafi, Safia Farkash al-Baraasi! I suppose I wasn’t really surprised, as every time there is a major news event, tragedy or television spectacle, spammers and fraudsters use the topic to social engineer their victims. The message itself was quite […]

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