Wednesday, January 9, 2013

Bogus Google Certificate Exposes Broader Problem

Google spotted an impostor certificate on Christmas Eve and took quick action, but the event is calling into question the reliability of Secure Socket Layer security. Turktrust, a Turkish Web certificate authority, acknowledged it gave two entities the power to create certificates when it shouldn't have. The result was unauthorized parties parading around the Internet pretending to be a Web heavyweight. Google discovered the problem when its Chrome browser discovered a bogus certificate trying to pass itself off as Google. It was immediately blocked.

Source: http://ectnews.com.feedsportal.com/c/34520/f/632000/s/274636bd/l/0L0Stechnewsworld0N0Crsstory0C770A170Bhtml/story01.htm

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