During the past week, the compromise of Dutch certificate authority DigiNotar has been keeping the security community watching the news. SSL certificates allow encryption of web-traffic between users and servers, and the certificate authorities’ job is to give people some reasonable confidence…
The saddest part…
The saddest part of Apple’s whole response to their malware issues?
If they did actually help their customers, they might see all the exploits they missed. All of the backdoors we’ve been using since my Uni days to muck with the j0cks’ pr0n collections, and that the savviest and quietest blackhats are, no doubt, currently using for fun and profit.
