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Mozilla has learned that a fraudulent SSL certificate for websites belonging to Google has been issued. This is not a Firefox-specific issue and the certificate has now been canceled which should protect most people. Mozilla has released Firefox 3.6.21 and Firefox 6.0.1 to further protect you. Please update Firefox as soon as possible.

[http://blog.mozilla.com/security/2011/08/29/fraudulent-google-com-certificate/ Mozilla has learned] that a fraudulent [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ssl_certificate SSL certificate] for websites belonging to Google has been issued by [http://www.diginotar.com/ DigiNotar]. This is not a Firefox-specific issue and the certificate has now been canceled which should protect most people. {warning}'''Mozilla has released an update to Firefox to further protect you. Please update as soon as possible by following the steps in the [[Updating Firefox#w_how-do-i-manually-check-for-updates|Updating Firefox]] article.'''{/warning} You can manually delete this certificate from any version of Firefox with these steps: # [[T:optionspreferences]] # Click on the {menu Advanced} panel # Select the {menu Encryption} tab # Click {button View Certificates} # In the '''Certificate Manager''' window, select the {menu Authorities} tab # Scroll down to '''DigiNotar''' and select the '''DigiNotar Root CA''' # Click {button Delete or Distrust...} # Click {button OK} to confirm #*Because the certificate is "built-in" it will be distrusted but not deleted. Distrusting the certificate has the same effect as deleting it. {for win} [[Image:diginotar-win-1]] {/for} {for mac} [[Image:diginotar-mac-1]] {/for} {for linux} [[Image:diginotar-lin-1]] {/for} [[Template:ShareArticle|link=http://mzl.la/MILqG7]]