Experts uncover weakness in Internet security
Wednesday, December 31, 2008 - 19:14
in Mathematics & Economics
Independent security researchers in California and researchers at the Centrum Wiskunde and Informatica (CWI) in the Netherlands, EPFL in Switzerland, and Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e) in the Netherlands have found a weakness in the Internet digital certificate infrastructure that allows attackers to forge certificates that are fully trusted by all commonly used web browsers...