Using just a laptop, boffins sniff, spoof and pry – without busting browser padlock

Researchers based in Germany have discovered how to spoof certificates they don’t own – even if the certs are protected by the PKI-based domain validation. Though the group withheld the names of certificate authorities whose certs could be spoofed, Dr Haya Shulman, of the Fraunhofer Institute for Secure Information Technology, told The Register a “weak off-path attacker”

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