{"id":19891,"date":"2017-12-19T15:52:42","date_gmt":"2017-12-19T20:52:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=19891"},"modified":"2017-12-19T15:52:42","modified_gmt":"2017-12-19T20:52:42","slug":"how-extended-validation-certificates-can-be-used-to-scam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2017\/12\/19\/how-extended-validation-certificates-can-be-used-to-scam\/","title":{"rendered":"How Extended Validation Certificates Can Be Used to Scam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/information-technology\/2017\/12\/nope-this-isnt-the-https-validated-stripe-website-you-think-it-is\/\">Dan Goodin<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/information-technology\/2017\/12\/nope-this-isnt-the-https-validated-stripe-website-you-think-it-is\/\">\n<p>Researcher Ian Carroll filed the necessary paperwork to incorporate a business called Stripe Inc. He then used the legal entity to apply for an EV certificate to authenticate the Web page <a href=\"https:\/\/stripe.ian.sh\/\">https:\/\/stripe.ian.sh\/<\/a>. When viewed in the address bar, the page looks eerily similar to <a href=\"https:\/\/stripe.com\/\">https:\/\/stripe.com\/<\/a>, the online payments service that also authenticates itself using an EV certificate issued to Stripe Inc.<\/p>\n<p>The demonstration is concerning because many security professionals counsel end users to look for EV certificates when trying to tell if a site such as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.paypal.com\">https:\/\/www.paypal.com<\/a> is an authentic Web property rather than a fly-by-night look-alike page that&rsquo;s out to steal passwords. But as Carroll&rsquo;s page shows, EV certs can also be used to trick end users into thinking a page has connections to a trusted service or business when in fact no such connection exists. The false impression can be especially convincing when end users use Apple&rsquo;s Safari browser because it often strips out the domain name in the address bar, leaving only the name of the legal entity that obtained the EV certificate.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dan Goodin: Researcher Ian Carroll filed the necessary paperwork to incorporate a business called Stripe Inc. He then used the legal entity to apply for an EV certificate to authenticate the Web page https:\/\/stripe.ian.sh\/. When viewed in the address bar, the page looks eerily similar to https:\/\/stripe.com\/, the online payments service that also authenticates itself [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[31,1472,30,1529,386,103,48,96],"class_list":["post-19891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-ios","tag-ios-11","tag-mac","tag-macos-10-13","tag-mobilesafari","tag-safari","tag-security","tag-web"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19891","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19891"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19891\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19892,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19891\/revisions\/19892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}