25C3: Hackers completely break SSL using 200 PS3s
posted Dec 30th 2008 9:40am by Eliot Phillipsfiled under: cons, security hacks
A team of security researchers and academics has broken a core piece of internet technology. They made their work public at the 25th Chaos Communication Congress in Berlin today. The team was able to create a rogue certificate authority and use it to issue valid SSL certificates for any site they want. The user would have no indication that their HTTPS connection was being monitored/modified.
