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It is known that China has a strong economical relation with Ethiopia. However, it is unknown why a piece of malware signed with a VeriSign certificate from a Chinese firm calls back to an Ethiopian command and control server.
Security researchers from Norman have stumbled upon this curious-looking malware, which, a... |
4 May 2012
05:12 GMT |
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Users who want to check if websites are trusted and secure shouldn’t look for the VeriSign Trust Seal anymore. Symantec decided to combine it with their Norton brand and thus resulted the Norton Secured Seal.
Ever since the security organization acquired VeriSign Authentication Services, anti-malware and secur... |
24 April 2012
08:03 GMT |
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Freedom, the grey hat hacker that in the past period identified a lot of cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in some important websites, returns with other interesting finds. He discovered a number of 25 online shops from the United Kingdom containing XSS security holes.
The worrying thing is that all of the ... |
27 February 2012
03:22 GMT |
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Last year, we witnessed a lot of unfortunate incidents regarding certificate authorities and the trust factor seems to fade with each hack attack targeting these companies. Now, it turns out that even Symantec-owned Verisign suffered multiple data breaches back in 2010. A quarterly report filed by the company with t... |
3 February 2012
04:58 GMT |
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VeriSign, which is now a subsidiary of Symantec, recently filled a motion to ICANN, demanding the power to terminate the activity of any .com domain in the world if it's considered to be illegal or abusive, in the effort of aiding law enforcement officials.
According to The Register, the biggest issue rises f... |
11 October 2011
08:48 GMT |
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The new Symantec Certificate Intelligence Center is an add-on option for VeriSign MPKI for SSL and it's designed to aid companies in discovering and managing SSL Certificates across their entire network, regardless of the certificate authority that issued them.
The cloud-based service was created by Symantec ... |
13 September 2011
02:58 GMT |
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The security of the overall Internet infrastructure has passed a major milestone on Thursday, when the root zone for the .com TLD was signed for DNSSEC, a more secure version of the DNS system.The race to implement the DNS Security Extensions, commonly referred to as DNSSEC, began in 2008 after reputed security resea... |
1 April 2011
12:37 GMT |
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It started with Comodo coming across an issue that it considered a major security vulnerability affecting VeriSign customers. The security outfit leveraged a third party to notify VeriSign of the flaw in its enterprise SSL Certificate requesting process, and went on to urge the rival company to correct the problem an... |
23 June 2010
10:55 GMT |
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Security giant Symantec announced a definitive agreement to acquire VeriSign's security-related business for $1.28 billion yesterday. According to the deal, Symantec will take over VeriSign's server authentication, secure socket layer (SSL) and identity protection services, as well as its public key infrast... |
20 May 2010
11:21 GMT |
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Trusted provider of Internet infrastructure for the networked world VeriSign, Inc. announced today that it had been selected by Redmond-based software company Microsoft to provide code signing services for the applications that are being distributed via the Windows Marketplace for Mobile. According to the company, M... |
15 March 2010
15:31 GMT |
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The company operating bit.ly, the Internet's most popular URL shortening service, has enlisted the help of VeriSign, Websense and Sophos to protect its users from spam. Each of the vendors will provide bit.ly with fundamentally different URL checking technologies for what aims to be one of the most complete and ... |
1 December 2009
09:30 GMT |
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Wireless carrier AT&T announced on October 1 the purchase of VeriSign’s global security consulting business. According to the company, the deal was closed on Thursday, yet the terms of the deal weren't unveiled. At the same time, the operator also states that VeriSign’s security consulting experience... |
2 October 2009
15:41 GMT |
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Certicom Corp, the security software maker, announced recently that Research In Motion, the maker of BlackBerry, had placed a higher bid than VeriSign Inc previously did for the purchase of the software company. According to Certicom, RIM doubled its initial offer, and now it would be willing to pay C$131.1 million f... |
6 February 2009
02:37 GMT |
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This week seems to have been quite a tough one for RIM, as a Superior Court Order forced it to withdraw its bid for Certicom. Moreover, the company’s co-CEOs Jim Balsillie and Mike Lazaridis are reported to have to pay up to C$100 million for a back-dating issue, which might also drive the former to step down f... |
24 January 2009
03:58 GMT |
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It seems that the PlayStation 3 gaming console from Sony has uses beyond simply playing the newest Prince of Persia. Some people have used the console as a Linux based computer, while others are using it, via the Folding@home program, to sort through data which could improve our knowledge of diseases and could lead t... |
5 January 2009
14:21 GMT |
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Hackers attacking servers today has become something common. Though only a few are successful - they strive every day to do some damage to high profile companies. VeriSign - a giant amongst IT companies, and which operates two of the Internet's thirteen root servers - has complained that a successful denial of s... |
26 September 2007
10:17 GMT |
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