Apple Blocks Certificates That Could Help Attackers Fake Websites

Apple has blocked compromised security certificates on its devices that could help attackers impersonate websites, BleepingComputer reports. The certificates were issued by certificate authority eMudhra. According to Mozilla's investigation, their private keys were all numbers below 256, making them almost instantly recoverable. Attackers could use the affected website certificate keys to create fraudulent certificates that vulnerable software would trust. advisory from Mozilla cryptography engineer Dennis Jackson. These protections stop software using Apple's system checks from trusting the compromised certificates. Jackson says Safari and other major browsers had additional certificate checks that would have prevented attacks through this route. Whether attackers exploited other software remains unknown. Jackson's website. Tag: Cybersecurity This article, "Apple Blocks Certificates That Could Help Attackers Fake Websites" first appeared on MacRumors.com Discuss this article in our forums

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