Iran linked to Google, Skype and Yahoo attack
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A malicious attacker that appears to be the Iran government managed to obtain supposedly secure digital certificates that can be used to impersonate Google, Yahoo, Skype and other major websites, the security company affected by the breach said on Wednesday.Iran malicious attack
Comodo, a Jersey City, NJ-based firm that issues digital certificates, said the nine certificates were fraudulently obtained, including one for Microsoft's Live.com, have already been revoked. A fraudulent certificate allows someone to impersonate the secure versions of those websites — the ones that are used when encrypted connections are enabled — in some circumstances.
The IP addresses used in the attack are in Tehran, Iran, the firm said, which believes that because of the focus and speed of the attack, it was "state-driven". Spoofing those websites would allow the Iranian government to use what's known as a man-in-the-middle attack to impersonate the legitimate sites and grab passwords, read email messages and monitor any other activities its citizens performed, even if the connections were protected with SSL encryption.
For more on this story, read Google, Yahoo, Skype targeted in attack linked to Iran on CNET News.
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Here's a catchy title: "US government linked to Iran hostilities" for overthrowing a democratically elected leader in early 1950s, thus ushering the era of the vile puppet Shah who was later overthrown by Islamic Fundamentalists.
Ever heard of Echelon & Carnivore? Me thinks you doth protest too much.
However, with any deal the US does, the people they back are not usually interested in democracy and free speech, just free trade or beneficial trade with the US. So the the Shah was given essentially a blank check with which to use his State Police to brutally crack down on the Iranian people which has since been replaced by a Fundamentalist regime which does the same to the Iranian people.
The Iranian people, for whom you seem to have concern, have never known democracy or free speech or even the freedom of movement. The attempt to get fake digital certificates to watch over their own people is still part of a long tradition of suppressing the Iranian people. However, it is not very successful in that the information does flow throughout the entire country regardless of how much the government tries to crackdown on preventing the current mullahs and sheiks (who really control Iran) from maintaining control.
Don't tell me. Let me guess. You're one of those moral relativist creeps who justifies invading the US Embassy the taking of 52 American hostages, people who had nothing to do with the early 1950s, and fitting it to your own libtard guilt trip. Either that or you doth wear a dirty towel over your head.
So which is it, pal?
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