{"id":3254,"date":"2011-08-30T13:30:39","date_gmt":"2011-08-30T12:30:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.intego.com\/?p=3254"},"modified":"2023-04-11T17:52:12","modified_gmt":"2023-04-12T00:52:12","slug":"fraudulent-google-com-certificate-causes-worries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.intego.com\/mac-security-blog\/fraudulent-google-com-certificate-causes-worries\/","title":{"rendered":"Fraudulent Google.com Certificate Causes Worries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Dutch certificate authority, DigiNotar, has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.h-online.com\/security\/news\/item\/Fraudulent-certificate-triggers-blocking-from-software-companies-1333088.html\">issued a fraudulent SSL certificate for google.com<\/a>, which may lead to people attempting to use Google services being compromised. According to H Security, &#8220;The certificate was issued on 10 July to unknown persons in Iran.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Electronic Frontier Foundation even states that this has led to man-in-the-middle attacks that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eff.org\/deeplinks\/2011\/08\/iranian-man-middle-attack-against-google\">may have put Iranian activists in danger<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Mac utility company Coriolis has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.coriolis-systems.com\/blog\/2011\/08\/diginotar-certificate-security.php\">posted instructions on how to get rid of the certificate<\/a>, if you do, indeed, have it on your Mac. We checked our Macs and didn&#8217;t find any, but it would be safe for all Mac users to do the same, especially if they use Google services such as Gmail or Google Docs.<\/p>\n<p>Web browsers will be updated to block this certificate, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.intego.com\/mac-security-blog\/protect-safari-from-fraudulent-digital-certificates\/\">Safari users can use this technique to protect themselves<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Update: Gregg Keizer is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.computerworld.com\/s\/article\/9219669\/Mac_OS_X_can_t_properly_revoke_dodgy_digital_certificates\">reporting at Computerworld<\/a> that, in some cases, certificates revoked manually still work.<\/p>\n<p>For even more information about the DigiNotar breach, see Joshua Long&#8217;s comprehensive article on <a href=\"https:\/\/security.thejoshmeister.com\/2011\/08\/how-to-revoke-trust-for-diginotar-root.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">How to Revoke Trust for DigiNotar Root CA Certs\u2014Even On Older Macs<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A fraudulent SSL certificate was issued for google.com by a Dutch certificate authority, causing consternation, and possibly leading to serious consequences for activists in Iran.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":8975,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[13,11],"tags":[4678,128,129],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v17.4 - 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