NSA warns of wildcard certificate risks, provides mitigations

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The U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) is warning of the dangers stemming from the use of broadly-scoped certificates to authenticate multiple servers in an organization.

In a document released last week, the agency provides mitigations against the risks that come with the use of wildcard certificates. These include a recently disclosed ALPACA technique that could be used for various traffic redirect attacks.

NSA warns of wildcard certificate risks, provides mitigations

The U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) is warning of the dangers stemming from the use of broadly-scoped certificates to authenticate multiple servers in an organization. These include a recently disclosed ALPACA technique that could be used for various traffic redirect attacks.

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