Dutch Government Sets Sept. 28 Kill Date for DigiNotar Certs

Adobe said on Friday that its products would soon reject certificates issued by the disgraced Dutch certificate authority DigiNotar following the Dutch government’s decision, Friday, to revoke DigiNotar PKIoverheid CA certificates used by government agencies on September 28. The news sets an...

Debian DSA-2307-1 : chromium-browser - several vulnerabilities

Several vulnerabilities were discovered in the Chromium browser. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems : - CVE-2011-2818 Use-after-free vulnerability in Google Chrome allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly have unspecified oth...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : mozilla (MDVSA-2011:133-1)

Security issues were identified and fixed in mozilla firefox and thunderbird : As more information has come to light about the attack on the DigiNotar Certificate Authority we have improved the protections added in MFSA 2011-34. The main change is to add explicit distrust to the DigiNotar root...

Ten Reasons The Diginotar Breach Will Be Bigger Than Stuxnet

by Roel Schouwenberg Editor’s note: This story was reposted from Securelist.com. In an almost unprecedented event the Dutch minister of internal affairs gave a press conference at 1:15 AM Friday to Saturday night. He announced the Dutch government was revoking trust in Diginotar. Diginotar...

Additional protection against fraudulent DigiNotar certificates — Mozilla

Description: As more information has come to light about the attack on the DigiNotar Certificate Authority we have improved the protections added in MFSA 2011-34. The main change is to add explicit distrust to the DigiNotar root certificate and several intermediates. Removing the root as in our...

Dutch Government Scrambling To Reassure Citizens About Security Of Digital ID System

Call it “RSA on the Rhine.” Government officials in The Netherlands were left scrambling Tuesday to reassure nervous citizens that the country’s digital ID system, dubbed DigID, was safe after it was revealed that DigiNotar, the certificate authority that backs the DigID system, had been...