Pastebin Downed By Second DDoS Attack This Week

For the second time this week, Pastebin.com on Thursday found itself hit by a distributed denial-of-service DDoS attack. The site was previously taken offline for a portion of the day on Tuesday, though no motives or culprits for that attack have been named yet. A post to the service’s Twitter...

Breach confirmed in GlobalSign, SSL certificates not compromised

Breach confirmed in GlobalSign, SSL certificates not compromised GlobalSign said on Tuesday that the SSL certificate and key for www.globalsign.com may have been exposed after a hack on an external server in September. However, the company said that after investigating the breach it has found no...

GlobalSign Investigation Continues, Some CA Services to Return Monday

UPDATE: A day after suspending the issuance of SSL certificates while it investigates claims that its certificate authority infrastructure was compromised, GlobalSign said that the investigation is still ongoing but that it planned to begin bringing some of its services back online on Monday...

DigiNotar Hacker Says He Has GlobalSign Database Backups, Other Data

As GlobalSign continues the investigation into the claimed compromise of its CA infrastructure, the attacker who says he breached DigiNotar and Comodo said in another message on Pastebin Wednesday that not only did he hack GlobalSign, but he has the private key used to sign the certificate for th...

GlobalSign Stops Issuing Certs As It Investigates Claims of Compromise

GlobalSign, a major certificate authority that was named by the hacker who has claimed credit for the DigiNotar hack as another CA he has compromised, has stopped issuing certificates for the time being while it investigates the claims and determines whether its network has in fact been...

ComodoHacker responsible for DigiNotar Attack

ComodoHacker responsible for DigiNotar Attack The hacker warns the Internet community that he has access to 4 other high-profile CAs, among them being GlobalSign, a certification authority from the U.S. He threatens that he will use his power over the companies to issue false certificates, which...