Re: [keyassure] Mis-issued certs for Google / Yahoo / Skype, etc.

Ondřej Surý <ondrej.sury@nic.cz> Thu, 31 March 2011 17:06 UTC

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On 24.3.2011 09:17, Warren Kumari wrote:
> I'm assuming everyone has already seen this, but on the off-chance that you haven't:
>
> http://threatpost.com/en_us/blogs/phony-web-certificates-issued-google-yahoo-skype-others-032311#
>
> Being able to state "That ain't my cert" is one of the drivers for this work....

And there is a follow-up:

http://www.h-online.com/security/news/item/Comodo-two-more-resellers-were-compromised-1218517.html

O.
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