Google, Yahoo, Skype targeted in possible 'state-driven' hack from Iran

Is the Internet as safe as we think it is? Will we all be involved in a cyber war without choice?
Ever since I've joined the millions that go surfing on the internet, I've always felt like our privacy has been lost in a sense. We've opened a door way and have made ourselves vulnerable to some degree.

Possible "state-funded" hackers from Iran may be behind an unsuccessful Web-based attack that almost left Google, Yahoo, Skype and Mozilla open to impersonation, according to an Internet security company. New Jersey-based Comodo Group Inc. sells and issues digital authentication certificates that guarantee a website is legitimate based on an Internet security protocol called Secure Sockets Layer (SSL). The company said Wednesday that it had sold nine certificates to websites that turned out to be fake.

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