Crypto certificates impersonating Google and Yahoo pose threat to Windows users

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  11/07/14 - 22:28 #2

  IvanIV wrote: »

  Crypto certificates impersonating Google and Yahoo pose threat to Windows users
  
  Looks like it's Microsoft's turn. Although it's not a bug this time, they just don't have means to revoke a subdomain of compromised certificates and they cannot revoke the root certificate without serious impact on parts of Internet that use genuine certificates from the compromised CA.

  
  That's bad news if a certification authority has been corrupted and it sets a bad precedent. However, the problem does appear to be limited and that article reinforces what's been said elsewhere in terms of improving computer security: even if you use a Windows OS, steer clear of Internet Explorer and use one of the many alternative browsers instead.

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