full-disclosure - Re: Western Union Certificate Error

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Date: Thu, 8 Sep 2011 14:50:28 -0700
From: Andrew Farmer <andfarm@...il.com>
To: JT S <whytehorse@...il.com>
Cc: full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk
Subject: Re: Western Union Certificate Error

On 2011-09-07, at 07:40, JT S wrote:
> I recently got this error "You attempted to reach
> www.westernunion.com, but instead you actually reached a server
> identifying itself as wumt.westernunion.com. This may be caused by a
> misconfiguration on the server or by something more serious.

This appears to be an error, not a hack. Western Union doesn't use https://www.westernunion.com for anything obvious on their site -- the login form is at https://wumt.westernunion.com, and all of the other secure services I spotted are on different domains as well.
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