[ NNSquad ] Bad Akamai SSL certificate creating errors for SSL Bing access

[Lauren Weinstein <lauren@vortex.com>]

Bad Akamai SSL certificate creating errors for SSL Bing access

http://j.mp/11lm4Fw  (ars technica)

     While most people probably don't use a secure connection to reach
     Bing, those who do are being warned by their browsers this morning
     that something may be amiss. A misconfigured X.509 certificate on
     Microsoft's Bing search engine sites is causing errors for visitors
     over HTTP Secure (HTTPS) connections.  The certificate, which was
     apparently misconfigured by Akamai (which front-ends Bing for
     Microsoft), threw up warnings on browsers-including Internet
     Explorer-that the site might be fraudulent. A Firefox error indicated
     that the certificate was configured to be "only valid for the
     following names:  a248.e.akamai.net , *.akamaihd.net ,
     *.akamaihd-staging.net."

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