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Hack Obtains 9 Bogus Certificates for Prominent Websites
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PostPosted: Fri 15 Apr 2011, 23:55    Post subject:  Hack Obtains 9 Bogus Certificates for Prominent Websites  
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2011/03/comodo-compromise/
https://www.comodo.com/Comodo-Fraud-Incident-2011-03-23.html
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The hacker...compromised a partner account at the respected certificate authority Comodo Group, which he used to request eight SSL certificates for six domains: mail.google.com, www.google.com, login.yahoo.com, login.skype.com, addons.mozilla.org and login.live.com.

The certificates would have allowed the attacker to craft fake pages that would have been accepted by browsers as the legitimate websites. The certificates would have been most useful as part of an attack that redirected traffic intended for Skype, Google and Yahoo to a machine under the attacker’s control. Such an attack can range from small-scale Wi-Fi spoofing at a coffee shop all the way to global hijacking of internet routes.

At a minimum, the attacker would then be able to steal login credentials from anyone who entered a username and password into the fake page, or perform a “man in the middle” attack to eavesdrop on the user’s session....

...Out of the nine fraudulent certificates the hacker requested, only one — for Yahoo — was found to be active. Abdulhayoglu said Comodo tracked it, because the attackers had tried to test the certificate using a second Iranian IP address.

All of the fraudulent certificates have since been revoked, and Mozilla, Google and Microsoft have issued updates to their Firefox, Chrome and Internet Explorer browsers to block any websites from using the fraudulent certificates.

What about SeaMonkey? Is there a way to tell if the browser I'm using has the latest security updates?
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