Posted September 21, 2011, 9:17 AM by Lee Kaelin | Filed in IT Security, The Web
The disgraced Dutch certificate authority DigiNotar, recently at the center of a hacking scandal, has declared itself bankrupt. The firm first realized it had been compromised July 19 but failed to make any public announcement until the end of August…
Posted September 9, 2011, 6:00 PM by Jose Vilches | Filed in Apple, IT Security
Apple has issued an update for Mac OS X 10.7 Lion and 10.6 Snow Leopard systems that addresses the recent security breach involving DigiNotar's fake SSL certificates. The patch removes DigiNotar from the list of trusted root certificates, the list…
Posted September 7, 2011, 10:13 AM by Lee Kaelin | Filed in IT Security, The Web
The investigation into the breaches we reported on last week will be widened in an effort to learn whether private data of Dutch citizens has been compromised. It's been suggested that more than 500 fake certificates have been issued, including certificates…
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