The ongoing Occupy Wall Street protests spilled into the digital realm, as a group linked to the Anonymous hacking collective spilled information about Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein, along with e-mail addresses for much of the investment bank’s senior leadership.
UPDATED SAN FRANCISCO–It’s become fashionable of late to have people from outside the industry give keynotes at security conferences as a way of providing a fresh perspective or unique insight into what security means. Often, that fresh perspective turns out to be some variation of the “I don’t know security, so let me tell you how it doesn’t relate to my field” speech. Stephen Dubner fixed that.
A Dutch agency that regulates the actions of telecommunications providers has revoked DigiNotar’s ability to issue certificates for digital signatures. The agency said that because of the way that DigiNotar behaved during the attack on its certificate authority infrastructure, the company no longer has the authority to issued so-called qualified certificates.
GlobalSign is still in the process of completing the investigation into whether its certificate authority infrastructure was compromised, but the company on Tuesday was ready to resume some of its operations under “high-threat” conditions.
A hacker compromised a digital currency forum, bitcointalk.org, stealing email addresses and hashed passwords, reading messages, and, of all things, peppering the site with images Bill Cosby, according to a report from SC Magazine.
GlobalSign has found evidence that its main Web server was compromised recently, but has not discovered any indications that its certificate authority infrastructure was hacked, contrary to claims by the attacker responsible for the DigiNotar CA hack.
Mozilla has released a comprehensive guide to the use and implementation of the Do Not Track technology that’s included in its Firefox browser, in an effort to give developers and advertisers a better handle on how the technology works and how users are taking advantage of it.
UPDATE: A day after suspending the issuance of SSL certificates while it investigates claims that its certificate authority infrastructure was compromised, GlobalSign said that the investigation is still ongoing but that it planned to begin bringing some of its services back online on Monday.
In the latest edition of “open positions that should have been filled three years ago,” Apple Computer is looking to hire a Product Security Manager, the New York Times is reporting.
The fallout from the DigiNotar compromise continued on Tuesday, as Microsoft said it has now revoked its trust of all five of the certificate authority’s root certificates. The update that makes this change is being pushed out to users on all supported versions of Windows. Mozilla also released new versions of Firefox on Tuesday that revoke trust for all of DigiNotar’s certificates.
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