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> They issued fraudulent SSL certificates in 2011: https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2011/03/comodo_group_is.html https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/20
by ymse 10y ago
> They issued fraudulent SSL certificates in 2011: https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2011/03/comodo_group_is.html https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2011/03/comodo_group_...
Moxie had an amusing anecdote about this incident in his Blackhat 2011 talk "SSL and the future of authenticity"[0]. Apparently the same IP as was used by the "sophisticated attacker" and disclosed by Comodo downloaded sslsniff[1] from moxies server the next day, referred by a video tutorial about intercepting SSL..
0: https://youtu.be/Z7Wl2FW2TcA?t=5m https://youtu.be/Z7Wl2FW2TcA?t=5m
1: https://moxie.org/software/sslsniff/ https://moxie.org/software/sslsniff/
- Drdrdrq 10y agoThanks, this video really made my day! :) I guess I won't be buying certificates from Comodo anytime soon.