{"id":4780,"date":"2011-08-31T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-08-31T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/evssolutions.com\/google-announces-attack\/"},"modified":"2023-04-19T17:11:44","modified_gmt":"2023-04-19T17:11:44","slug":"google-announces-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/evssolutions.com\/insights\/google-announces-attack\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Announces Attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, <a href=\"http:\/\/googleonlinesecurity.blogspot.com\/2011\/08\/update-on-attempted-man-in-middle.html\">Google<\/a><br \/>\nannounced that there was an attempted SSL man-in-the-middle attack against its<br \/>\nusers. The majority of affected users were in Iran, so it was contained to a<br \/>\ngeographic area. However, someone tried to get between the users and encrypted<br \/>\nGoogle services by using a fraudulent SSL certificate issued by DigiNotar.<\/p>\n<p>DigiNotar did not have permission to issue<br \/>\ncertificates for Google, and has since stopped doing so.<\/p>\n<p>Google also reports that Google Chrome users<br \/>\nwere protected from the attack by being able to detect the fraudulent<br \/>\ncertificate. Mozilla and Microsoft also took quick action to protect users with<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.electronicverificationsystems.com\/\">fraud prevention<br \/>\nsystems<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Google suggests keeping your operating systems<br \/>\nand web browsers up to date and pay special attention to any and all warnings.<\/p>\n<p><!--EndFragment--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday,Googleannounced that there was an attempted SSL man-in-the-middle attack against its users. The majority of affected users were in Iran, so it was contained to a geographic area. However, someone tried to get between the users and encrypted Google services by using a fraudulent SSL certificate issued by DigiNotar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet-fraud","category-security"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/evssolutions.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4780","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/evssolutions.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/evssolutions.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evssolutions.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evssolutions.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4780"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/evssolutions.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4780\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/evssolutions.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evssolutions.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evssolutions.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}