It had been suggested that, because many of the bogus DigiNotar certificates were issued to users in Iran, that authorities in there may have initiated the CA hack as a tool for spying on dissidents.
Cyber security researcher Robert David Graham found the published file from the Stratfor hack and used password-cracking tool oclHashtcat to crack the password over the weekend.
This process seems very similar to that iOS hack except that this one uses the tool called Grim Receiper top marks to Borodin for coming up with that creative name to keep purchse receipts stored on your Mac locally.
But Flick's XAB tool offers another application of the hack: It hijacks a user's browser to visit Web pages and relays the data to an untraceable third party.
Nine days after the hacker Comex and his band of underground coders released a new jailbreaking tool for the iPhone and iPad, Apple has released an update to iOS that prevents the hack.