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Transitive trust and SSL certificate verification

Sep

2011

On April 11, 2011, the Dell SecureWorks Counter Threat UnitSM (CTU) posted a blog entry titled ‘Certificate Authorities for SSL/TLS: Crypto’s weak link‘[1], which discussed some of the strains of the current Certificate Authority (CA) system for validating web site identity. The backdrop to this blog entry was the breach of Comodo [2] and their resulting […]

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Popureb – a small rootkit with a big reputation

Jul

2011

There has been a lot of discussion in recent weeks about some new variants of the Popureb rootkit that clobber your Master Boot Record (MBR). Initial reports from Microsoft even suggested the only way to recover was to reinstall Windows, which fortunately is not true. SophosLabs Threat Researchers Mike Wood, Michele Freschi and Ahmed Zaki […]

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