EFF Data Shows Four CAs Compromised Since June

The EFF, through the use of its SSL Observatory, has taken a look at the data from certificate revocation lists for SSL certificates in recent months, and found that there were four separate CAs compromised in the last four months. The data that the EFF looked at was a summary of the reasons that...

Replacing the CA System, Millions of Clients at a Time

The Internet was not designed to be a secure network, not by any stretch of the imagination. It was meant to enable giant PDPs and IMPs at one college to talk to their brethren at another college across the country. SSL was an attempt to impose some level of security and trustability on this syst...

Hacker Takes Credit For Attack on Comodo

Someone claiming to be the person behind last week’s attack on a registration authority tied to Comodo has posted an explanation of the methods he supposedly used and the reasons for the attack. The rambling, disjointed message claims that the Comodo attack was not the act of an organized,...

Mozilla Says It Erred in Not Disclosing Comodo Attack Earlier

Just days after news emerged of the attack on a registration authority in Europe tied to Comodo that caused the revocation of a number of fraudulent certificates from the major browsers, Mozilla officials have admitted that they made a mistake by not disclosing the details of the incident to its...