A small security update for OS X Snow Leopard and Lion users is now available from Apple, addressing an issue regarding fraudulent certificates from DigiNotar, a Dutch certificate authority organization: Impact: An attacker with a privileged network position may intercept user credentials or other sensitive information Description: Fraudulent certificates were issued by multiple certificate authorities operated by DigiNotar. This issue is addressed by removing DigiNotar from the list of trusted root certificates, from the list of Extended Validation (EV) certificate authorities, and by configuring default system trust settings so that DigiNotar’s certificates, including those issued by other authorities, are not…
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