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Microsoft’s botnet shutdown won’t stop Mac malware

29

Sep

2011

There has been much discussion of the shutdown of the Kelihos botnet this week by Microsoft and Kaspersky. It is the third such action by the Microsoft Active Response for Security (MARS) initiave in recent memory. Taking down botnets is always good news and even better Microsoft named an individual defendant in their US court […]

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End of the road for DigiNotar as bankruptcy declared

20

Sep

2011

DigiNotar, the Dutch certificate authority which hackers compromised and used to generate hundreds of bogus web security certificates, has filed for bankruptcy.The announcement that DigiNotar has filed for voluntary bankruptcy was made today by its US parent company VASCO Data Security International.And, quite frankly, there aren’t many who will be mourning its loss.VASCO’s CEO, T. […]

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Firefox 6.0.2 fixes yet more DigiNotar certificate fallout

07

Sep

2011

Firefox 6.0.2 has just come out, adding more protection to that provided by Firefox 6.0.1, which was necessitated by the mess caused by disgraced Dutch web security company DigiNotar. (DigiNotar is the former Certificate Authority – or so-called “authority” – which managed to issue more than 500 bogus digital certificates in the name of major […]

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