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 ...

Get unlimited access to ad-free articles and exclusive content. One stolen Google website authentication certificate would have been reason enough for Web users to worry, but it turns out last week's ...

Certificate Authorities (CAs) make up the backbone of the web of trust for credit card transactions and secure communications between web browsers and web sites. Without this “web of trust” intact, ...

The theft of SSL certificates from Dutch certificate authority DigiNotar so undermined trust in the company that it has gone bankrupt. Responsible for taking down the company is a single attacker, ...

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 ...

I mentioned yesterday that the Dutch company DigiNotar had been hacked back in July. The company though that it had revoked all the bogus certificates, but only recently admitted that the hack had ...