Blog Posts Tagged with "Digital Certificates"
SSL Wars – Little New Hope
March 28, 2013 Added by:Gary McCully
I thought it was time to write an update regarding the current state of websites that are using SSL/TLS to protect their web applications. Sadly, the current state of SSL/TLS is pretty pathetic. As of March 19, 2013 the SSL Pulse Project reported that many of the most popular sites on the Internet are still struggling with correctly implementing SSL!
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Senators Seek Investigation into Electric Grid Security Issue
July 20, 2012 Added by:Headlines
"These certificates protect access to control systems. They protect access to a $400 billion market. They protect access to trading systems. They also protect access to machines that do things like turn generators off. If you issue a fraudulent certificate or you're lax... the consequences could be disastrous..."
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Cyberoam DPI Vulnerability Alarms Tor Project
July 10, 2012 Added by:Pierluigi Paganini
Tor Project found a vulnerability in Cyberoam DPI where all share the same digital certificate and the private key is the same for every device. The implications are serious, as it could be possible to catch traffic from any user by extracting the key and importing it into other DPI devices for interception...
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Flame's MD5 Collision: Most Worrisome Security Discovery of 2012
June 15, 2012 Added by:Richard Stiennon
Stuxnet, Duqu and Flame have used false certificates to infiltrate a network. Action must be taken today to discover and root out MD5 certificates from the enterprise. We are beyond the proof of concept stage. Certificate attacks will be with us as long as MD5 based certificates are used to authenticate critical systems....
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W32.Flamer Used Spoofed Microsoft Digital Certificates
June 04, 2012 Added by:Headlines
"We have discovered through our analysis that some components of the malware have been signed by certificates that allow software to appear as if it was produced by Microsoft. We identified that an older cryptography algorithm could be exploited and then be used to sign code as if it originated from Microsoft..."
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NASA Denies Iranian Hacker's SSL Certificate Breach Claims
May 29, 2012 Added by:Headlines
NASA has officially denied that the agency's systems were breached by the Iranian hacker group the "Cyber Warriors Team," which claimed to have compromised a digital SSL certificate after having coded an HTTPS protocol scanner to find weaknesses in the agency's website...
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Iranian Hackers Hit NASA: Isolated Attack or Act of Cyberwar?
May 24, 2012 Added by:Pierluigi Paganini
Hackers have written an HTTPS protocol scanner to find weaknesses in the NASA website. A NASA spokesman hasn't denied the hack, and the agency is investigating the event. Is it an isolated operation conducted by a group of hackers, or a state-sponsored act of cyberwar?
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The Growing Importance of Protecting Certificate Authorities
April 08, 2012 Added by:Rafal Los
We've seen a few of the largest CAs get compromised and fake certificates end up in the hands of nation-states which wanted to spy on their population. It goes without saying that there are likely more attacks that we've simply either not picked up or were unreported...
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Malware Variant Signed with Valid Digital Certificate
March 16, 2012 Added by:Headlines
Kaspersky has discovered malware in the wild identified as Trojan.Win32.Mediyes accompanied by a VeriSign digital certificate which appears to be part of a click-fraud operation designed to generate revenues for the attackers from a legitimate marketing service...
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OTA Advocates Always On SSL
March 05, 2012 Added by:Headlines
Online Trust Alliance (OTA) is calling on the security, business and interactive advertising communities to adopt Always On SSL (AOSSL), the approach of using SSL/TLS across your entire website to protect users with persistent security, from arrival to login to logout...
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Subordinate Digital Certificates Pits Trustwave vs Mozilla
February 14, 2012 Added by:Pierluigi Paganini
Trustwave declared that the issuing of subordinate root certificates to private companies was done to allow inspection of the SSL encrypted traffic that passes through their networks. Trustwave decided to stop issuing these in the future, and revoked the existing ones...
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VeriSign Hacked - But Why?
February 03, 2012 Added by:Pierluigi Paganini
The impairment of these mechanisms could lead to the redirection of traffic to bogus sites with serious consequences - and not just that - the compromise of the Digital Certificate model itself raises the risk for the interception of emails and confidential documents...
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Web Authentication: A Broken Trust with No Easy Fix
January 30, 2012 Added by:Infosec Island Admin
Systemic weaknesses and a general lack of oversight governing the process used to issue digital certificates, key to the standards used to validate legitimate websites, prompted some security experts to wonder if the system may be hopelessly ineffective...
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Cyber Defense: Welcome to 2012 and Interesting Times
January 05, 2012 Added by:Cyber Defense Weekly
2011 was the year that state sponsored hacking finally came to national attention with hundreds of articles exposing the continued industrial and military cyber espionage credited to the likes of China and Russia. We can be sure that 2012 will bring more of the same...
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Ever-Clearer Vulnerabilities in Certificate Authority System
January 03, 2012 Added by:Electronic Frontier Foundation
At EFF we are big fans of HTTPS, the secure version of HTTP that allows for private conversations between websites and users who are browsing them. Though we've known that this system has been flawed for a while now, last year there were two attacks that acutely demonstrated just how brittle it is...
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Consortium Issues Baseline Requirements for SSL
December 20, 2011 Added by:Headlines
"The primary goal of these Requirements is to enable efficient and secure electronic communication, while addressing user concerns about the trustworthiness of Certificates. The Requirements also serve to inform users and help them to make informed decisions when relying on Certificates..."
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