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Apple Blocks Certificates That Could Help Attackers Fake Websites


Apple has blocked compromised security certificates on its devices that could help attackers impersonate websites, BleepingComputer reports. The certificates were issued by certificate authority eMudhra. According to Mozilla's investigation, their private keys were all numbers below 256, making them almost instantly recoverable. Attackers could use the affected website certificate keys to create fraudulent certificates that vulnerable software would trust.

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