Digital Certificates and Signatures: Microsoft Corp. Case Solution
The certifications could be used by malicious attackers to fool computer users into running dangerous applications applications. Regardless of how the the fraud was revealed coupled with the follow up investigation by the FBI, the person who registered the certificates could not be found.
The Microsoft case was the first reported instance of digital certificate fraud of the world. It became a catalyst of serious queries related to the sophistication that digital certificates and the rules regulating the actions of issuers and users in the electronic market faced. The mishap also disclosed that a straightforward identity certificate/signature includes procedures and complicated and nonstandard policies that are vulnerable to security and regulatory flaws.
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