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‘Secure’ advertising tool PrivDog compromises HTTPS security

The latest software to open a man-in-the-middle hole on users’ PCs is a new version of PrivDog, an advertising product with ties to security vendor Comodo. The program is designed to replace potentially bad ads with safer ones that are reviewed by a compliance team from a company called Adtrustmedia. The error in PrivDog’s implementation is simpler than that: The program doesn’t properly validate the original certificates it receives from websites. A maximum 6,294 users in the USA and 57,568 globally are potentially affected.”]

Source: https://www.computerworld.com/article/2887654/secure-advertising-tool-privdog-compromises-https-security.html

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