June 2017
Intermediate to advanced
338 pages
8h 28m
English
Certificates and Public Key Inrastructure (PKI) are the basis for trust on the web and within enterprises. The premise of this arrangement is that if both parties are mutually authenticated using a trusted third party, what could go wrong? Well, hackers have been trying to pass off forged certificates for some time, relying on misconfigured certificates, browsers, and lax server-side implementations. These are fairly easy to expose and defend against, but some new dynamics are being planned.
The Stuxnet malware campaign that allegedly targeted Iranian centrifuges (https://www.wired.com/2014/11/countdown-to-zero-day-stuxnet/) did many things that were both instructive and downright unprecedented throughout the ...
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