Symantec employees mistakenly leak test SSL certificates
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Symantec was forced to fire 3 employees after Google's engineers found rogue SSL certificates issued in its name used in the wild.
SSL certificates are a technology through which browsers and Web service providers create a secure and authorized channel of communication.
They are used billions of times each day and have become a common practice in securing communications between users and banks, online shops, social networks, and about any website it wants to protect its users and their private data from hackers and privacy-intruding government agencies.
Responsible for issuing these certificates is a Certificate Authority (CA). There are numerous CAs around the world, all which are recognized and trusted by browsers makers to issue certificates to authorized and trustworthy clients only.
One of those CAs is Symantec, a cyber-security vendor known primarily for its Norton antivirus engine.
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