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Microsoft warns of rogue digital certificates
Stephen Withers
Thursday, 24 March 2011 13:38
Microsoft is warning its users of nine rogue digital certificates that could be used in a variety of attacks involving popular sites. They include sites operated by Microsoft, Google, Yahoo!, Skype and Mozilla.
Although the certificates have now been revoked, there is still a chance that they could be used to spoof content, perform phishing attacks, or perform man-in-the-middle attacks if software does not check the revocation lists and does not use the Online Certificate Status Protocol.
Microsoft has released a security advisory along with updates for all currently supported versions of Windows to mitigate the issue. Those updates are being delivered automatically through Windows Update and are also available for download via this page.
"We are unaware of any active attacks," said Bruce Cowper, Microsoft's group manager for trustworthy computing.
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