‘NSA made abuse of vulnerability DigiNotar’

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The NSA might have occurred as services from Google and Microsoft with certificates from Dutch certificate authority DigiNotar. That would appear to be from a broadcast of a Brazilian tv program. In 2011, certificates of DigiNotar stolen.

The hack of DigiNotar, was either the work of the NSA itself, or the NSA has an existing leak at the certificate authority abused, set beveiligingsexpert Bruce Schneier on the basis of the Brazilian tv program Fantástico. That could have happened as part of a project of the NSA with the intelligence man-in-the-middle attack is carried out, where internet traffic was intercepted.

In 2011, DigiNotar hacked, then the certificate authority fake certificates issued for domain names of Google, Microsoft, Mozilla and the Tor project. It is uncertain whether the NSA actually abused the hack, or even behind. The hack was claimed by a hacker from Iran.

The hack of DigiNotar last year marked the end of the Short company. The burglary came to light when Iranian internet users found that their internet traffic was intercepted. The hack appeared already to have taken place, but the company kept the hack under the cap. Then refused web browsers certificates of the company.