{"id":5013,"date":"2012-07-11T00:52:09","date_gmt":"2012-07-11T05:52:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=5013"},"modified":"2013-06-02T15:16:46","modified_gmt":"2013-06-02T20:16:46","slug":"microsoft-revokes-trust-in-28-of-its-own-certificates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=5013","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft Revokes Trust in 28 of Its Own Certificates"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Microsoft has not said exactly what the now-untrusted certificates were used for, but company officials said there were a total of 28 certificates affected by the move. Many of the affected certificates are listed simply as &#8220;Microsoft Online Svcs&#8221;. However, the company said that it was confident that none of them had been compromised or used maliciously. The move to revoke trust in these certificates is a direct result of the investigation into the Flame malware and how the attackers were able to forge a Microsoft certificate and then use it to impersonate a Windows Update server.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"https:\/\/threatpost.com\/en_us\/blogs\/microsoft-revokes-trust-28-its-own-certificates-071012\">Microsoft Revokes Trust in 28 of Its Own Certificates | threatpost<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft has not said exactly what the now-untrusted certificates were used for, but company officials said there were a total of 28 certificates affected by the move. Many of the affected certificates are listed simply as &#8220;Microsoft Online Svcs&#8221;. However, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=5013\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[420,347,50,312],"class_list":["post-5013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technical","tag-certificates","tag-malware","tag-microsoft","tag-ssltls"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5013","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5013"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5013\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10325,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5013\/revisions\/10325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}