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Marlinspike: Certificates have 'real problems'

Marlinspike: Certificates have 'real problems'

...broke of a hack of Comodo, when an intruder obtained nine fraudulent digital certificates. Then in September it emerged that hundreds of thousands of Iranians... Read more

16 March, 2012 by Tom Espiner

Comodo hacker hints at more stolen certificates

...The hacker allegedly responsible for stealing digital certificates from Comodo has said that further certificate authorities may have been... Read more

31 March, 2011 by Darren Pauli

FBI probes security breach linked to Iran hackers

...breach in which a hacker tricked a New Jersey company into issuing digital certificates for Google, Yahoo, Microsoft and other major websites. Comodo chief executive... Read more

30 March, 2011 by Declan McCullagh

Iran linked to Google, Skype and Yahoo attack

...that appears to be the Iran government managed to obtain supposedly secure digital certificates that can be used to impersonate Google, Yahoo, Skype and other... Read more

24 March, 2011 by Declan McCullagh and Elinor Mills
Energy-Efficient Source Authentication for Secure Group Communication with Low-Powered Smart Devices in Hybrid Wireless/Satellite Networks

Energy-Efficient Source Authentication for Secure Group Communication with Low-Powered Smart Devices in Hybrid Wireless/Satellite Networks

The authors describe a new class of lightweight, symmetric-key digital certificates called extended TESLA certificates and a source authentication protocol for wireless... Read more

14 September, 2010
Public Key Technology Introduction Infrastructure

Public Key Technology Introduction Infrastructure

Public key technology and digital certificates are emerging as the preferred enablers of strong security for a... Read more

1 June, 2010

Trustwave sold root certificate for surveillance

...use them outside of this hardware and infrastructure." One problem with using digital certificates as an online trust mechanism is that if a party manages... Read more

9 February, 2012 by Tom Espiner

Microsoft scraps Windows Phone update tracking

Windows Phone customers will no longer be able to see whether their operators are working on giving them updates to the smartphone OS, causing people to complain that Microsoft is leaving them in the dark Read more

9 January, 2012 by David Meyer

GlobalSign confirms external server hack

...that any hacker had tried to pose as GlobalSign itself.Companies use digital certificates as a cryptographic online trust technology. A stolen digital certificate can... Read more

15 December, 2011 by Tom Espiner

Wikileaks shuts off publication after funds dry up

...system for whistleblowers on 28 November. The system will not rely on digital certificates to validate the submissions process. "Intelligence agencies have infiltrated a number... Read more

24 October, 2011 by Tom Espiner

GlobalSign finds no sign of fake certificates after hack

...further evidence of breach other than the isolated www web server [sic]." Digital certificates are cryptographic identification used to establish trust online. Spoofed certificates could... Read more

12 September, 2011 by Tom Espiner

Apple updates Mac OS X after DigiNotar break-in

...by other authorities, are not trusted", a description of the update said. Digital certificates are issued by trusted organisations such as DigiNotar so that web... Read more

12 September, 2011

GlobalSign stops SSL certificates after hack claim

...s claims," GlobalSign chief marketing officer Steve Waite said in a statement. Digital certificates are a form of online cryptographic identification. Hackers can use spoofed... Read more

7 September, 2011 by Tom Espiner

Thousands of Iranians hit by email monitoring attack

...IT. "No secure central network logging is in place," the company said. Digital certificates Digital certificates are used for cryptographic identification. For example, web browsers... Read more

6 September, 2011 by Tom Espiner
Why pick Office 365 over free cloud tools?

Why pick Office 365 over free cloud tools?

Two top Microsoft executives, Gordon Frazer and Gurdeep Singh Pall, make the case for switching to the new paid-for Office 365 cloud services Read more

16 July, 2011 by Mary Branscombe

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