Blog Posts Tagged with "Root Certificate"
W32.Flamer Used Spoofed Microsoft Digital Certificates
June 04, 2012 Added by:Headlines
"We have discovered through our analysis that some components of the malware have been signed by certificates that allow software to appear as if it was produced by Microsoft. We identified that an older cryptography algorithm could be exploited and then be used to sign code as if it originated from Microsoft..."
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Malicious Exploits: Hitting the Internet Waves with CSRF
March 13, 2012 Added by:Brent Huston
DHS ranks the CSRF vulnerability as the 909th most dangerous software bug, more dangerous than most buffer overflows. CSRF vulnerabilities can result in remote code execution with root privileges or compromise root certificates, completely undermining a public key infrastructure...
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Subordinate Digital Certificates Pits Trustwave vs Mozilla
February 14, 2012 Added by:Pierluigi Paganini
Trustwave declared that the issuing of subordinate root certificates to private companies was done to allow inspection of the SSL encrypted traffic that passes through their networks. Trustwave decided to stop issuing these in the future, and revoked the existing ones...
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