Tuesday, December 30, 2008

SSL broken! Hackers create rogue CA certificate using MD5 collisions

SSL broken! Hackers create rogue CA certificate using MD5 collisions

You're likely asking yourself how the FUCK they managed to process all these MD5 collisions, they used the processing power of 200 PS3s. That's right; two hundred.

Just make sure you watch for spoofing guys. Don't trust that little lock icon any more. Trust that you browse directly to your banking/credit card site.

And now, the above post repackaged for the more visually minded;





1 comment:

WildWeathel said...

Just hope that the DNS patch is wildly enough deployed...

Seriously, those two exploits so close to each other, during the holiday shopping season... scary.