21 September 2011

DigiNotar files for bankruptcy | #ssl #comodohacker #ca

Disgraced digital certificate firm DigiNotar has filed for bankruptcy in The Netherlands.

Hackers broke into DigiNotar's systems in June before creating forged digital certificates in the names of Google and other high-profile targets. The forged Google.com SSL credentials were used to spy on 300,000 Iranian internet users, according to a subsequent analysis of authentication lookup logs on DigiNotar's systems. Comodohacker, the boastful Iranian black hat who had claimed credit for an earlier attack on digital certificate firm Comodo, also claimed credit for the DigiNotar hack.

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