{"id":9304,"date":"2013-12-09T20:28:10","date_gmt":"2013-12-10T04:28:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/?p=9304"},"modified":"2014-09-03T16:02:39","modified_gmt":"2014-09-03T23:02:39","slug":"google-catches-french-finance-ministry-pretending-to-be-google","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2013\/12\/google-catches-french-finance-ministry-pretending-to-be-google","title":{"rendered":"Google catches French finance ministry pretending to be Google"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By <span class=\"authors\"><span class=\"vcard\"><a class=\"url fn\" itemprop=\"author\" title=\"Posts by David Meyer\" href=\"http:\/\/gigaom.com\/author\/superglaze\/\" rel=\"author\">David Meyer<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"excerpt-label\">Summary:<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The incident, which was probably a case of the French finance ministry going overboard in its efforts to monitor employee activities, provides a timely reminder of how certificates are the weak point in online security.<\/p>\n<p>Google appears to have caught the French finance ministry spying on its workers\u2019 internet traffic by spoofing Google security certificates, judging from an episode that took place last week.<\/p>\n<p>The web firm said in a <a href=\"http:\/\/googleonlinesecurity.blogspot.de\/2013\/12\/further-improving-digital-certificate.html\">blog post<\/a> on Saturday that, on the preceding Tuesday, it had become aware of \u201cunauthorized digital certificates for several Google domains.\u201d It tracked the provenance of these certificates back to ANSSI, the French state information security agency, which in turn <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ssi.gouv.fr\/en\/the-anssi\/events\/revocation-of-an-igc-a-branch-808.html\">pointed to the Treasury<\/a> as the culprit.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/gigaom.com\/2013\/12\/09\/google-catches-french-finance-ministry-pretending-to-be-google\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By David Meyer Summary: The incident, which was probably a case of the French finance ministry going overboard in its efforts to monitor employee activities, provides a timely reminder of how certificates are the weak point in online security. Google appears to have caught the French finance ministry spying on its workers\u2019 internet traffic by [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,30,1490,1511],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cybercrime-malcode","category-ethics","category-government","category-surveillance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9304","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9304"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9304\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}