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Iran: Assessing Latest Cyber-Threat, Rogue Certificate Part 2 (Arseh Sevom)
Saturday, September 3, 2011 at 15:20 | James Miller in EA Iran, EA Middle East and Turkey, Middle East and Iran
Earlier in the week, our colleagues at the civil society organistion Arseh Sevom assessed the security threat, possibly introduced by the Iranian regime, that left Google users in Iran susceptible to a rogue certificate attack.
Now, Arseh Sevom reanalyzes the threat in part 2 of the series. And they have an alarming piece of information, that users of Tor, Yahoo, and Mozilla may also have been compromised...
See Also, Iran Special: Assessing the Latest Cyber-Threat --- The "Rogue Certificate" (Arseh Sevom
Latest from Iran (3 September): Elections and the Revolution
UPDATE: Google and Mozilla have revoked more than 200 security certificates as a result of a hack into the accounts of certificate authority, DigiNotar.
tagged Arseh Sevom, Firefox, Google, Iran, Mozilla, Roque Certificate, Security threat, Tor, Yahoo, cyber attack, cyber war