[SSL Observatory] MS advisory out on the other certificates

Steve Schultze sjs at princeton.edu
Wed Mar 23 12:39:39 PDT 2011


FWIW, my commentary.  Sorry if this is getting too off-topic.

http://freedom-to-tinker.com/blog/sjs/web-browsers-and-comodo-announce-successful-certificate-authority-attack-perhaps-iran

On Mar 23, 2011, at 3:18 PM, Robert Malmgren wrote:

> After Jacobs first sign of warnings, and the bad addons.mozilla.org, now there is a more complete list of frauded certs.
> 
> These certificates affect the following Web properties:
>> login.live.com
> 
>> mail.google.com
> 
>> www.google.com
> 
>> login.yahoo.com (3 certificates)
> 
>> login.skype.com
> 
>> addons.mozilla.org
> 
>> "Global Trustee"
> 
> 
> This seem to be a very bad situation, afaik.
> 
> For more info, see
> https://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/advisory/2524375.mspx
> 
> --r 
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