CA Tied to Chinese Registrar Issued Unauthorized Google Certificates

Google security engineers, investigating fraudulent certificates issued for several of the company’s domains, discovered that a Chinese certificate authority was using an intermediate CA, MCS Holdings, that issued the unauthorized Google certificates, and could have issued certificates for...

Google catches Indian Government Agency with Fake Digital Certificates

Google has identified and blocked unauthorized digital certificates for a number of its domains issued by the National Informatics Centre NIC of India, a unit of India’s Ministry of Communications and Information Technology. National Informatics Center NIC holds several intermediate Certification...

Phony Google Digital Certificates Blocked

Google said today that it has blocked unauthorized digital certificates for a number of its domains issued by the National Informatics Centre of India. The phony certificates could allow an attacker to spy on a connection thought to be secure. NIC, Google said, holds intermediate CA certs trusted...