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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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Matthew, one of our researchers at the AV Labs, flagged us regarding a Facebook scam he spotted late last weekend. And his timing could not have been more impeccable. The scam is about Southwest Airlines giving away free tickets. Now, as a practical rule of thumb, if something free is given by (a) a non-friend, […]

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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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