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Fake certificates

Authored by: SpaceLifeForm on Sunday, August 19 2012 @ 06:24 PM EDT

There are fake certs floating on the net IMO.

I have been seeing these problems for a few months now.

Depending on the ISP, you may or may not get a bad cert.

I believe there is some king of subtle attack happening
with fake certs in the same vein as Stuxnet.

The really interesting ones seem to occur with a bad cert
being thrown at your browser for a site you are *NOT* visiting.

Likely via javascript via an "ad server"
and/or upstream HTML injection.

Set your clock ahead a day or two and see if you notice a difference.

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You are being MICROattacked, from various angles, in a SOFT manner.

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Fake certificates - Authored by: JimDiGriz on Sunday, August 19 2012 @ 11:24 PM EDT
Bad Cert for a DIFFERENT Site - Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, August 20 2012 @ 02:57 AM EDT
- Bad Cert for a DIFFERENT Site - Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, August 20 2012 @ 04:37 AM EDT
  - Bad Cert for a DIFFERENT Site - Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, August 20 2012 @ 05:42 AM EDT

Certificates 101

Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, August 19 2012 @ 07:17 PM EDT

Yep this is certificate pinning and I have no idea why it's not standard on all
browsers. That technique goes a long way to mitigating most of what's seriously
wrong with the current PKI.

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