http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/1727426/us-government-fails-secure-websites By Lawrence Latif The Inquirer Aug 11 2010 GUARDIAN OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is seemingly unable to set up a secure website correctly. The website for the high profile cabinet department that is supposed to protect the US from terrorists and has a reported budget of $52 billion throws up errors when users try to access the secure site through the HTTPS protocol. Browsers such as Firefox, Safari and Chrome issue warnings suggesting the site is not quite what it seems. The problem is down to the fact that while the certificate was issued for the official DHS domain name, the technological wunderkind in charge of matters forgot that hosting duties are actually farmed out to Akamai. So when the content is loaded from Akamai's servers, which are not covered by the SSL certificate issued for the DHS domain, browsers rightly throw up a warning suggesting something dodgy is going on. While security warnings that the DHS website is some dodgy knock-off might be ironic, in the case of the State Department's website, it's of far greater concern. [...] -- Visit InfoSec News! http://www.infosecnews.org/Received on Thu Aug 12 2010 - 00:08:52 PDT
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