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Trustworthiness of Digital Certificates Compromised by Security Breach

Calendar Sep 28, 2011 • User Avatar Anthony Pell
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cybersecurity web security security breach certificate authority digital certificate sensitive data trust issues
The keepers of the Internet have become acutely concerned about the Web's core trustworthiness. Hackers cracked three companies that work with the most popular Web browsers to ensure the authenticity of Web pages where consumers type in sensitive information, such as account log-ons, credit card numbers and personal data. The hacked firms are among more than 650 digital certificate authorities, or CAs, worldwide that ensure that Web pages are the real deal when served up by Microsoft's Internet Explorer, Firefox, Opera, Apple's Safari and Google's Chrome.

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