Comodohacker claims ability to push his own Windows update
The hacker responsible for the recent attack on DigiNotar has claimed that he also has the ability to issue Windows updates.
Microsoft has denied that this is possible in a recent security statement issued last week. The hacker, known as Comodohacker, claims that this is not true and he has already reversed an “entire windows update protocol”.
As far as the attack on DigiNotar goes, the attacker claims that this was carried out as retaliation for Srebrenica, when Dutch peacekeepers failed to prevent the town being taken during the Bosnian conflict. Microsoft says that the root certificates were revised at the end of last month to remove any from DigiNotar and so it is unlikely that any attacker has access.
