Background

Emerging Threats to Online Trust: The Role of Public Policy and Browser Certificates, Presentation, transcript, slides(pdf). October 22, 2010 Declan McCullagh, Why browsers differ on Web sites' safety, CNet, March 28, 2011

Comodo breach

Declan McCullagh and Elinor Mills, Google, Yahoo, Skype targeted in attack linked to Iran, CNet, March 23, 2011 Declan McCullagh and Elinor Mills, Hackers exploit chink in Web's armor, CNet, March 24, 2011

Digi Notar breach

Gregg Keizer, Hackers may have stolen over 200 SSL certificates, Computerworld, August 31, 2011 Charles Arthur, Rogue web certificate could have been used to attack Iran dissidents, The Guardian, August 30, 2011

Flame malware

Dan Goodin, "Flame" malware was signed by rogue Microsoft certificate, ars technica, June 4, 2012 Lance Whitney, Flame virus can hijack PCs by spoofing Windows Update, CNet, June 5, 2012

TURKTRUST breach

djwm, Fatal error leads TURKTRUST to issue dangerous SSL certificates, H-online, January 4, 2013 Dennis Fisher, TURKTRUST Incident Raises Renewed Questions About CA System, threatpost.com, January 4, 2013