by Declan McCullagh
After a hacker obtained fraudulent digital certificates that could be used to impersonate Google, Yahoo, Skype, and other major Web sites, the security company that issued them blamed the Iranian government.
There is only 'one conclusion,' Comodo, the Jersey City, N.J.-based issuer of digital certificates said in a report tracing the intrusion to Iran. 'This was likely to be a state-driven attack.'
Well, not quite. The perpetrator claims to be a 21-year-old Iranian patriot--a 'single programmer with the experience of 1,000 programmers'--who told CNET he carried out the intrusion in large part to protest the policies of the U.S. government.
As proof, 'ComodoHacker' has posted the private half of a digital certificate obtained during the intrusion into the network of GlobalTrust, a Comodo reseller in Italy. (ComodoHacker also uses the aliases 'Sun Ich' and 'Ichsunx,' which he says are random.)"
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