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March 29, 2011  10:50 PM

What happens when the Certificate Authority system fails



Posted by: Dan O'Connor
CA, certificate authority failure, chrome, firefox, mozilla, ssl

Bad things. That's what. The story is that someone stole digital certificates for some big sites on March 15th using a username and password they obtained, the sites included Hotmail, Gmail, Yahoo and Skype.  On a scale of one to ten of a sites security issues this is more like an eleven. ...

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February 17, 2010  9:08 AM

CVE-2009-3555 – SSL/TLS renegotiation



Posted by: Dan O'Connor
977377, CVE-2009-3555, ssl, tls

Microsoft just released an advisory to this in the last couple days, I have been following this since October last year.  http://support.microsoft.com/kb/977377 The basic premise of the attack is a man in the middle attack using SSL...

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