Alleged covert wiretap on Russian messaging service blown by expired TLS certificate

Security researchers have discovered what they believe may be a government attempt to covertly wiretap an instant messaging service in Germany — an attempt that was blown because the potential intercepting authorities failed to reissue a TLS certificate. The suspected man-in-the-middle attack was identified when the administrator of jabber.ru, the largest Russian XMPP service, received

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