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.
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