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Thread ID: 100392 2009-06-06 01:20:00 TelstraClear Cable / Certificate Errors Erayd (23) PC World Chat
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779998 2009-06-07 09:26:00 that was kind of my question...

is this a MITM or is some doing a sloppy end point re-driect...
It's a MITM, because it was occurring on *every* SSL connection I tried to make on port 443. Whether it was TelstraClear putting a clueless monkey in charge of their proxy (who then tried to proxy secure sites), or an actual hack, I can't be certain, but my guess is a hack.


Would a compromised DNS server be a possibility here Erayd? I.e. redirecting whatever secure URL to another server?
This is not a possibility, for several reasons:
I run my own DNS servers, and don't rely on ISP ones. Those servers show no signs of tampering that I could see.
PowerDNS isn't easily vulnerable to cache poisoning.
DNS wasn't being intercepted enroute, because querying it via a VPN connection returned the same results.
Other providers' servers returned the same records as mine did.
Other services on the same servers, but not running on port 443, were unaffected.
Erayd (23)
779999 2009-06-08 12:09:00 For those interested, just had this occur again, for around 5 minutes, only this time Google was the only service affected. Erayd (23)
780000 2009-06-08 12:54:00 I'd personally be on the phone to TelstraClear ASAP ... ;) Chilling_Silence (9)
780001 2009-06-08 13:16:00 I have not had any expired certs from Telecom since my previous post. Sweep (90)
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