{"id":32806,"date":"2011-08-30T12:00:12","date_gmt":"2011-08-30T10:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=32806"},"modified":"2011-08-30T12:13:19","modified_gmt":"2011-08-30T10:13:19","slug":"fraudulent-google-credentials-found-online","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/32806-fraudulent-google-credentials-found-online.html","title":{"rendered":"Fraudulent Google credentials found online"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"DigiNotar\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/361748-DigiNotar\">DigiNotar<\/a>, a certificate authority based in the Netherlands, issued the credentials on July 10. The fraudulent credentials were issued to digitally sign <a title=\"Google\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/314567-Google\">Google<\/a> pages protected by the secure socket layer (SSL) protocol.<\/p>\n<p>The forged certificate is for *.google.com, and allows those in possession of it to execute attacks on a range of Google users who access pages on networks that are controlled by the counterfeit certificates.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis isn&#8217;t a huge surprise,\u201d according to <a title=\"Moxie Marlinspike\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/361752-Moxie-Marlinspike\">Moxie Marlinspike<\/a>, a researcher and critic of the SSL system. \u201cThis is the kind of thing we should expect is happening all the time. The only thing noteworthy is that anyone noticed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Google\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/314567-Google\">Google<\/a> and <a title=\"Mozilla Foundation\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/342687-Mozilla-Foundation\">Mozilla<\/a> have responded to the fraudulent credentials by preparing updates to Chrome, Firefox and other software, as well as blocking all sites digitally signed by DigiNotar while the issue is being investigated.<\/p>\n<p>Read the full story over at: <a title=\"The Register news site\" href=\"http:\/\/www.theregister.co.uk\/2011\/08\/29\/fraudulent_google_ssl_certificate\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Register<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Security researchers have discovered a counterfeit web certificate for Google.com that provides hackers with encryption keys<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":56,"featured_media":29838,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[4258,167,4260,975],"class_list":["post-32806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-internet","tag-diginor","tag-google","tag-moxie-marlinspike","tag-mozilla"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32806"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/56"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32806"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32806\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32824,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32806\/revisions\/32824"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}