On Saturday, Aug. 27, 2011, an Iranian man who went by the online alias alibo tried to check his email—only to find he couldn’t connect to Gmail. Yet the problem disappeared when he connected to a ...

The disgraced Dutch certificate authority DigiNotar, recently at the center of a hacking scandal, has declared itself bankrupt. The firm first realized it had been compromised July 19 but failed to ...

Diginotar shuts down. That’s fast. Diginotar is one of the companies authorized to issue digital certificates for secured transactions on the web. So if you do some online banking, the certificate is ...

Browser makers have generally been quick to react to the computer compromise at digital certificate issuer DigiNotar, but that hasn’t been the case for all mobile phone makers. On Tuesday neither ...

The Dutch company that was hacked earlier this summer by certificate thieves has gone bust and shut down, its U.S.-based owner said Tuesday. DigiNotar filed for bankruptcy in a Netherland court on ...

One stolen Google website authentication certificate would have been reason enough for Web users to worry, but it turns out last week's security breach at the Dutch certificate authority (CA) ...

Apple has issued an update for Mac OS X 10.7 Lion and 10.6 Snow Leopard systems that addresses the recent security breach involving DigiNotar's fake SSL certificates. The patch removes DigiNotar from ...

VASCO, the parent company of DigiNotar, says that the fraudulent certificate for Google’s domains that the certificate authority issued was just one of many such bogus certificates it handed out in ...

The story that recently caused the biggest stir in IT security and government circles was the compromise at Dutch certificate authority DigiNotar and the subsequent “theft” of many important ...

The hack of Dutch certificate authority DigiNotar already bore many similarities to the break-in earlier this year that occurred at a reseller for CA Comodo. Bogus certificates were issued for webmail ...

The 2011 security breach at Dutch certificate authority (CA) DigiNotar resulted in an extensive compromise and was facilitated in part by shortcomings in the company’s network segmentation and ...

One stolen Google website authentication certificate would have been reason enough for Web users to worry, but it turns out last week's security breach at the Dutch certificate authority DigiNotar is ...