Diginotar goes bankrupt

DigiNotar, the Dutch certificate authority (CA) which was recently at the centre of a significant hacking case, has been declared bankrupt.

http://www.itpro.co.uk/636244/diginotar-goes-bankrupt-after-hack

Who do you trust to tell you who to trust? | Agile Blog

The compromise of the DigiNotar Certificate Authority and the subsequent issuing of fraudulent SSL certificates, led to actual Man in the Middle attacks against Gmail users in Iran ...

http://blog.agilebits.com/2011/09/who-do-you-trust-to-tell-you-who-to-trust/

Fox-IT report on Diginotar

Christopher Soghoian (@csoghoian) 06/09/2011 03:08 Ouch - Around 300k unique IPs in DigiNotar OCSP logs for Google cert. Of these client IPs, 99% clients came from Iran http://t.co/DsOdJ0T

@TheEconomist, 05/09/2011 23:04

FOR all its decentralised charm, the internet remains a top-down affair when it comes to security. Every time you connect to a secure website it is parties anointed with authority from on high that tell you whether or not the site should be trusted. ...

The Economist (@TheEconomist) 05/09/2011 23:04 For all its decentralised charm, the internet remains a top-down affair when it comes to security http://t.co/VV7eQek