{"id":33492,"date":"2011-09-08T09:10:14","date_gmt":"2011-09-08T07:10:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=33492"},"modified":"2011-09-08T09:11:36","modified_gmt":"2011-09-08T07:11:36","slug":"globalsign-investigating-hacker-claims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/33492-globalsign-investigating-hacker-claims.html","title":{"rendered":"GlobalSign investigating hacker claims"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The hacker, who claimed responsibility for <a title=\"Fraudulent Google credentials found online\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/32806-fraudulent-google-credentials-found-online.html\">breaching security systems at digital certificate issuing authority DigiNotar<\/a>, boasted breaching GlobalSign\u2019s security systems in a statement he released regarding the recent hacks.<\/p>\n<p>GlobalSign has released a statement responding to these allegations, which reads, \u201cGlobalSign takes this claim very seriously and is currently investigating. As a responsible CA (certificate authority), we have decided to temporarily cease issuance of all Certificates until the investigation is complete. We will post updates as frequently as possible.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The company also said that they had hired Dutch security experts Fox-IT to aid their investigations as a precautionary measure as they assess the hacker\u2019s claims.<\/p>\n<p>Read the full story over at: <a title=\"Cnet news site\" href=\"http:\/\/news.cnet.com\/8301-27080_3-20102818-245\/second-firm-stops-issuing-digital-certificates\/\" target=\"_blank\">Cnet<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GlobalSign has stopped issuing new digital certificates while the company probes the claims of the DigiNotar hacker<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":56,"featured_media":27335,"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":[17],"tags":[4510,4556,461],"class_list":["post-33492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-diginotar","tag-globalsign","tag-hacking"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33492"}],"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=33492"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33492\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33494,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33492\/revisions\/33494"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}