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DigiNotar CA compromise

31

Aug

2011

SSL certificates are used to validate the identity of a website to users. Over the weekend, it was found that DigiNotar, a Dutch Certificate Authority, had issued a rogue SSL certificate for *.google.com. Today, this was confirmed by DigiNotar in a press release.According to DigiNotar’s own investigation, they found out that they were compromised on […]

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Diginotar Hacked by Black.Spook and Iranian Hackers

30

Aug

2011

Diginotar is a Dutch Certificate Authority. They sell SSL certificates. Somehow, somebody managed to get a rogue SSL certificate from them on July 10th, 2011. This certificate was issued for domain name .google.com. What can you do with such a certificate? Well, you can impersonate Google — assuming you can first reroute Internet traffic for […]

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Apple publishes big Safari security update – Lion status unclear

22

Jul

2011

Apple yesterday released an update for Safari 5.0.6 and 5.1 which includes a whole battery of security fixes. If you calculate the magnitude of a security update by the count of CVE (Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures) numbers listed, this one scores a 57. For the full security story, see Apple’s Knowledgebase article HT4808. For a […]

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