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Shaw Capital Working Management News Worldwide: Cracked digital certificates
endanger web of trust
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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 that a 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
that authenticate themselves to
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