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GlobalSign finds no sign of fake certificates after hack

...GlobalSign, one of the major digital certificate authorities, has found that one of its web servers has been hacked... Read more

12 September, 2011 by Tom Espiner

Trustwave sold root certificate for surveillance

...Certificate authority Trustwave has admitted selling a digital certificate for a customer to... Read more

9 February, 2012 by Tom Espiner

GlobalSign confirms external server hack

...An SSL certificate issued by GlobalSign may have been compromised, the company has confirmed. GlobalSign... Read more

15 December, 2011 by Tom Espiner

Microsoft revokes further DigiNotar certificates

...Adobe released security fixes on Tuesday, as Microsoft blacklisted six more root certificates in the wake of a breach at DigiNotar that allowed the issuing... Read more

14 September, 2011 by Elinor Mills

GlobalSign stops SSL certificates after hack claim

...Japanese-owned certificate authority GlobalSign has temporarily stopped issuing certificates, after the hacker thought to... Read more

7 September, 2011 by Tom Espiner

False SSL certificates issued for spy agencies

...CIA and Mossad were among organisations spoofed after a hack on Dutch certificate authority DigiNotar. Around 531 organisations were targeted by falsely issued SSL certificates... Read more

5 September, 2011 by Tom Espiner

Mozilla plans changes to web certification policy

...of its baseline policies to address problems in the way that web certificates are issued. Mozilla wants Certificate Authorities (CAs) that issue web certificates to... Read more

15 April, 2011 by Darren Pauli

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 hacked... Read more

31 March, 2011 by Darren Pauli

How web certificates open door to hackers

...web authentication — namely, who can be trusted to issue the secure digital certificates to create encrypted channels — and each has different procedures for approval. A... Read more

29 March, 2011 by Declan McCullagh

Researchers find digitally signed malware

...uncovered a rarity — malware that is signed with a valid code-signing certificate stolen from a government. Security firm F-Secure has discovered a rare... Read more

15 November, 2011 by Elinor Mills
McAfee: Why Duqu is a big deal

McAfee: Why Duqu is a big deal

...and performing espionage on industrial controller networks. Duqu was signed with a certificate was supposedly issued by the C-Media audio-product company. Does that... Read more

26 October, 2011 by Tom Espiner

Google urges Iranians to change passwords

...of our users," he wrote. The warning follows a hack on Dutch certificate authority DigiNotar.For more on this ZDNet UK-selected story, see Google... Read more

12 September, 2011 by Elinor Mills

Thousands of Iranians hit by email monitoring attack

...could have had their Google services intercepted, after a hack on Dutch certificate authority DigiNotar. Gmail accounts could still be vulnerable, as login cookies may... Read more

6 September, 2011 by Tom Espiner

Google.com spoof triggers scramble to clean up

...to shore up defences against an attack that used a fraudulent digital certificate to fool people into handing information over to spoofed Google.com services... Read more

31 August, 2011 by Tom Espiner

FBI probes security breach linked to Iran hackers

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

30 March, 2011 by Declan McCullagh

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