Kazakhstan man-in-the-middle attack
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kazakhstan-man-in-the-middle-attack-194-6468339
title:
Kazakhstan man-in-the-middle attack
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In 2015, the government of Kazakhstan created a root certificate which could have enabled a man-in-the-middle attack on HTTPS traffic from Internet users in Kazakhstan. The government described it as a "national security certificate". If installed on users' devices, the certificate would have allowed the Kazakh government to intercept, decrypt, and re-encrypt any traffic passing through systems it controlled. In July 2019, Kazakh ISPs started messaging their users that the certificate, now calle
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State-actor security exploit by the government of Kazakhstan
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kazakhstan_man-in-the-middle_attack
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2024-04-09T04:22:12Z
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