GlobalSign is a WebTrust certified certificate authority that provides publicly trusted X.509 compliant SSL, including the new EV SSL Extended Validation Certificate, S/MIME and code signing certificates for use on all popular platforms including Mobile. Other services include a Trusted Root Certificate Authority chaining program for trusted PKI deployments, which allows the widely distributed and trusted GlobalSign root CA certificates to cryptographically chain subordinate root CAs for use in Microsoft CA and other inhouse CAs. Such chaining allows these non-commercial CAs to control their own internal PKI, typically issuing SSL and digital IDs for secure email and two factor authentication. These solutions enable end users to conduct secure online transactions and data submission, providing tamper-proof distributable code as well as to bind identities to client certificates for email security and remote two factor authentication, such as SSL VPN. GlobalSign has introduced digital certificates for signing Adobe Systems PDF documents with their DocumentSign USB & Hardware Security Module solutions and also Microsoft Office documents and VBA Macros with their Office Security Suite.
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The hacker responsible for the DigiNotar hack, the infamous ComodoHacker[1], (the hacker also responsible for the security breach at Comodo Group) claims that he has also hacked the systems of GlobalSign[2] and GlobalSign takes this claim so seriously that they have stopped the signing/issueing of certificates.
They also hired Fox-IT to audit and investigate their environment because Fox-IT has a lot of knowledge on the matter and this particular hacker [3][4]