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[ PRIVACY Forum ] Bad Akamai SSL certificate creating errors for SSL
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Fri Apr 19 11:34:22 2013
Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2013 08:13:20 -0700
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Bad Akamai SSL certificate creating errors for SSL Bing access
http://j.mp/11lm4Fw (ars technica)
While most people probably don't use a secure connection to reach
Bing, those who do are being warned by their browsers this morning
that something may be amiss. A misconfigured X.509 certificate on
Microsoft's Bing search engine sites is causing errors for visitors
over HTTP Secure (HTTPS) connections. The certificate, which was
apparently misconfigured by Akamai (which front-ends Bing for
Microsoft), threw up warnings on browsers-including Internet
Explorer-that the site might be fraudulent. A Firefox error indicated
that the certificate was configured to be "only valid for the
following names: a248.e.akamai.net , *.akamaihd.net ,
*.akamaihd-staging.net."
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