Shaw Capital Working Management News Worldwide: Cracked digital certificates endanger ‘web
of trust’
One stolen Google website authentication certificate would have been reason enough for Web
users to worry, but it turns out last week’s security breach at...
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Shaw Capital Working Management News Worldwide: Cracked digital certificates endanger ‘web
of trust’
One stolen Google website authentication certificate would have been reason enough for Web
users to worry, but it turns out last week’s security breach at the Dutch certificate authority
DigiNotar is far more damaging than first thought, and could signal a new and extremely
dangerous cyber crime threat.
On Aug.
30, the news broke thata hacker calling himself “Comodohacker”made off with a Google
authentication certificate on July 19, which allowed him to set up fraudulent Web pages under a
legitimate Google domain name and harvest the personal information of anyone who visited his
spoofed sites.
A bit of background on authentication certificates: DigiNotar, like all certificate authorities, issues
digital Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) certificates of trust to websites thatauthenticate themselves to
browsers, which is necessary to establish a secure, HTTPS connection.
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