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  Rogue Google certificate used by 300,000 Iranian IPs

  Iranian internet users whose security may have been compromised by the forged Google.com digital certificate could number in the hundreds of thousands. An interim report (PDF) commissioned by DigiNotar, the certification authority (CA) at the centre of the hacking incident, also reveals lax security at the Dutch firm.

  By Stilgherrian | 06 September, 2011 11:02

  Tags: breach, DigiNotar, digital certificates, Dropbox, Fox-IT, Google, hackers, MI6, network security, network servers, pki, security, Tor, VPN servers

Whitepapers about digital certificates

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  The Digital Universe Decade – Are You Ready?

  May 2010—The digital universe continued its skyrocketing growth even during a severe global economic downturn: The creation and replication of new digital information set a record in 2009 by growing to 800 billion gigabytes, 62 percent over the previous year. IDC looks at the trends and challenges of managing the explosive growth of information in this digital universe decade. Are you ready?