Last week one of the root certificate authorities, Comodo, issued some fraudulent certificates for some very high-traffic and popular domains (including google.com, live.com, and yahoo.com.) The risk is that someone will use these certificates for nefarious purposes.
Microsoft deemed the risk bad enough that they released an out-of-band patch that will revoke the bad certificates. You can download this patch here. I highly recommend that if you are on a Windows machine you apply this patch.
More information about this problem can be read here. A good article about this story is available on cNet.
About Me
- Jonathan Watts
- Los Angeles, CA, United States
- I have over 15 years of professional experience in the I.T. field, working with individuals and small to mid-size businesses. I've received a certificate in Project Management from UCLA, and I am a member of PMI. I have expertise in Active Directory, Open Directory, VMWare, Windows, Mac OSX, *nix, Exchange, IIS, Cisco, Forefront TMG, MARS, ACS, CSA, EMC, NetApp, and Websense. I've worked in all aspects of I.T., from end-user support to engineering and design.
Subscribe
Posts
Comments