I’ve just been reading ZDNet, as I often do. It’s a pretty good source for technology news. The bias is extreme, but it’s extreme in all camps which balances itself. Infact, not one to recommend news sources in general, if you haven’t subscribed to their daily news, you should. Thanks to ZDNet, I’ve been notified [...]

DigiNotar are a Dutch certificate authority that were hacked recently. Their role in the grand scheme of the internet is to provide certificates allowing secure connections to websites (SSL/HTTPS as used on shopping websites etc). The hackers generated a number of fraudulent certificates and used them as part of an elaborate hack against Iranian Gmail [...]