From the night of Friday to Saturday at the 20 of December a new subscriber named Mike Zusman registered at the CA site. Subsequently he succeeded in overcoming the domain validation interface by validating for domains not under his control." - Critical Event Report
The last year has been a rough one for SSL PKI. Fraudulently provisioned certificates, MD5 collisions, SSL spoofing attacks, and most recently, attacks against EV SSL. The variety of these attacks shows us how big the attack surface of SSL really is. From crypto attacks to browser design flaws, attackers have choices when it comes to man-in-the-middling SSL protected web sites. This presentation covers one of these vectors: real attacks against CA web sites. While some folks look to CAs for guidance when it comes to conducting secure business on the Internet, the CAs themselves can fall victim to the same attacks consumers look to them for protection against. EV SSL is a step in the right direction, but with a heavy reliance on low-assurance domain validated SSL certificates, can we ever get SSL right?