SSL Certificate Authority Recall Grows | Linux Today

SSL Certificate Authority Recall Grows

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Sep 7, 2011

“Last week, multiple browser vendors issued updates in response
to the exploit of the DigiNotar SSL certificate authority (CA)
.

As it turns out, those updates didn’t go far enough as the
exploit of DigiNotar is worse than initial reports indicated.
Mozilla has issued Firefox 6.0.2 as their second patch to help
protected their browser users against the risk of fraudulent
DigiNotar SSL certificates.

“The main change is to add explicit distrust to the DigiNotar
root certificate and several intermediates,” Mozilla stated in its
advisory.


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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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