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iPhone 5 giveaways on Facebook – a scam or what?

01

Sep

2011

Even if it hasn’t been officially announced yet, and certainly isn’t available to the general public (unless an Apple employee loses a test model in a bar), there are plenty of scammers out there trying to trick you into believing you can get a free iPhone 5. Here’s just a sample of the pages on […]

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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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The bigger issue with the rogue Google SSL cert

30

Aug

2011

Today we saw the discovery of another rogue SSL certificate – this time for *.google.com. The certificate itself was issued five weeks ago. This will allow an attacker to sniff the traffic to virtually all of Google’s services even with HTTPS enabled. Right now, there’s an unconfirmed report this attack is happening in Iran. Frankly, […]

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