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Mozilla Offers $10,000 Bounty For Bugs In New SSL Certificate Library

In the wake of the discovery of Heartbleed bug, Mozilla is stepping up its certificate validation efforts

Opera tries to put a good spin on could turn out to be a pretty nasty breach

"Deep irony", as hackers use security vendor Bit9 to spread malware

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Two researchers have proposed a way to catch forged SSL certificates and increase the level of trust in CAs

Quarterly report from last November reveals that the network infrastructure provider was hacked and had data stolen multiple times in 2010

KPN has stopped issuing SSL security certificates while it investigates a four-year-old intrusion into its web server

DigiNotar's SSL certificate leak seems to be worse than first thought and trust once broken may never be mended, says Eric Doyle

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For five weeks now Google users have been targeted by hackers using a forged SSL certificate

The fifth certificate authority to be hacked this year, StartSSL has suspended its free SSL offer indefinitely

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Certification company's humiliation drags on as hacker scalps two more Comodo registration authority accounts