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Microsoft Digital Certificate Stolen

A cyber criminal posing as a Microsoft employee recently tricked Verisign Inc. into issuing two digital certificates bearing Microsoft's name and authority. The fraudulent certificates could fool users into believing that it's safe to allow code from a dynamic website to run on their machine.

For more details about this security breach, see the article at http://www.msnbc.com/news/548228.asp?cp1=1&cp1=1&cp1=1&cp1=1


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