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GlobalSign says web server, not CA systems, hit by breach
GlobalSign, a Portsmouth, N.H.-based certificate authority (CA) that briefly halted the issuance of SSL certs over fears it had been hacked, has determined its CA infrastructure was never compromised. In addition, the company said in a statement Tuesday that it concluded its investigation and found no evidence of any bogus…
GlobalSign hopes to reopen tomorrow despite web server hack
GlobalSign expects to bring its certificate-issuing systems back online today and resume business Tuesday, it said over the weekend. The US certificate authority (CA) stopped issuing new SSL certificates last Tuesday in order to audit its security, after being named as a target by the hacker who claimed to have…
GlobalSign pulls digital certificates
GlobalSign digital certificates have come under scrutiny after a hacker’s claim that he broke into the company’s computer systems. If true, it would be the second such compromise in the past few weeks. The hacker, known as Comodohacker, announced earlier in the week that he had broken into Dutch certificate…
