Google catches French govt spoofing its domain certificates
France's cyberdefence division, Agence nationale de la sécurité des systèmes d’information (ANSSI), has been detected creating unauthorised digital certificates for several Google domains.
Google states on its own security blog that an intermediate certificate authority (CA) issued the certificate, which links back to ANSSI.
"Intermediate CA certificates carry the full authority of the CA, so anyone who has one can use it to create a certificate for any website they wish to impersonate," Google wrote.
read more http://www.zdnet.com/google-catches-french-govt-spoofing-its-domain-certificates-7000024062/
France's cyberdefence division, Agence nationale de la sécurité des systèmes d’information (ANSSI), has been detected creating unauthorised digital certificates for several Google domains.
Google states on its own security blog that an intermediate certificate authority (CA) issued the certificate, which links back to ANSSI.
"Intermediate CA certificates carry the full authority of the CA, so anyone who has one can use it to create a certificate for any website they wish to impersonate," Google wrote.
read more http://www.zdnet.com/google-catches-french-govt-spoofing-its-domain-certificates-7000024062/
