FYI

If you haven’t heard, apparently there was an SSL certificate falsely issue for all of Google’s domains last Month, possibly to an Iranian source:

http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/239112/google_says_gmail_attack_focused_on_iranian_targets.html

They’ve since revoked the certificate but not before it was successfully used to perform several man-in-the-middle attacks. Given the seriousness of the breach, removing the offending certificate authority (DigiNotar) from your browser’s list of trusted authorities (both at home and at work) is probably reasonable.

Some instructions to help:

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*Firefox:*

http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/deleting-diginotar-ca-cert

Chrome:

go under options -> under the hood -> manage certificates -> trusted root certificates -> edit DigiNotar and disable all the trust settings.

Internet Explorer:

http://www.gainesvillecomputer.com/blog/fake-ssl-certificate.html