{"id":446,"date":"2011-09-26T17:42:09","date_gmt":"2011-09-26T17:42:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/paulgurney.com\/whats_new_blog\/?p=446"},"modified":"2011-09-26T17:42:09","modified_gmt":"2011-09-26T17:42:09","slug":"web-security-flaws-domain-names-and-certificates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paulgurney.com\/whats_new_blog\/2011\/09\/web-security-flaws-domain-names-and-certificates\/","title":{"rendered":"Web Security Flaws &#8211; Domain Names and Certificates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This recent article by MacWorld is an excellent primer on SSL security, the underlying technologies that power HTTPS:\/\/\u00a0 browsing.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>This year there have been numerous reports suggesting that the fundamental security infrastructure of the Web is on shaky ground. In March we heard about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.macworld.com\/article\/158806\/2011\/03\/digital_certificate_revocation_safari.html\">a collection of stolen security certificates<\/a>, and in August <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcworld.com\/businesscenter\/article\/239639\/dutch_government_struggles_to_deal_with_diginotar_hack.html\">the release of more than 500 improperly issued certificates<\/a> came to light.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a title=\"macworld's article on SSL for Mac\" href=\"http:\/\/macw.us\/nyMA9y\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/macw.us\/nyMA9y<\/a><\/p>\n<p>It focuses on protecting Mac browsers, but talks about Windows and Google Chrome as well.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This recent article by MacWorld is an excellent primer on SSL security, the underlying technologies that power HTTPS:\/\/\u00a0 browsing. This year there have been numerous reports suggesting that the fundamental security infrastructure of the Web is on shaky ground. In March we heard about a collection of stolen security certificates, and in August the release &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/paulgurney.com\/whats_new_blog\/2011\/09\/web-security-flaws-domain-names-and-certificates\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Web Security Flaws &#8211; Domain Names and Certificates&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,31,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computers-mac","category-legal","category-security"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p415hC-7c","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulgurney.com\/whats_new_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulgurney.com\/whats_new_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulgurney.com\/whats_new_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulgurney.com\/whats_new_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/55"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulgurney.com\/whats_new_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=446"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/paulgurney.com\/whats_new_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":447,"href":"https:\/\/paulgurney.com\/whats_new_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446\/revisions\/447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulgurney.com\/whats_new_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulgurney.com\/whats_new_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulgurney.com\/whats_new_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}