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Liberty 1.0 launch hints at OASIS merger
News The group hopes to create a specification which will support multiple authentication services, and its early members include Bank of America, Fidelity Investments, Sprint, Vodafone, Nokia, eBay, American Airlines and VeriSign.
[July 15, 2002, 17:24]
Firefox tool counters man-in-the-middle attacks
News It is also designed to assure surfers when they visit sites that are safe but which Firefox warns about because the sites are not paying a third-party certificate authority, such as VeriSign, for authentication, and instead are using 'self-signed...
[August 27, 2008, 10:57]
Online tills ring with Christmas cheer
News It follows earlier, almost identical figures from VeriSign, which showed holiday sales between Thanksgiving and Christmas up 24 percent. Online holiday sales were up 25 percent this year, according to a new report.
[January 4, 2005, 8:05]
IE hole gets third-party plug
News Attacks have ramped up significantly in the past 24 hours," said Ken Dunham, director of the rapid response team at VeriSign's iDefense. A group of security professionals has created a third-party fix for a recently discovered Internet Explorer...
[September 25, 2006, 9:10]
Yahoo and Cisco put anti-spam standard forward
News Other companies involved include Alt-N Technologies, AOL, EarthLink, IBM, Microsoft and VeriSign, Yahoo said. An anti-spam technology that focuses on identifying forged email addresses has been proposed as a standard by Cisco, Yahoo and partners.
[July 12, 2005, 10:00]
Ubuntu 'Intrepid Ibex' due on Thursday
News Shuttleworth, who got rich by selling his last start-up to Verisign, indicated just how patient he is with his new investment, though. Canonical will release the newest version of its Ubuntu version of Linux on Thursday, chief executive Mark...
[October 28, 2008, 7:57]
US govt to get early warning of Net attacks
News Sachs offered the example of the department monitoring unusual numbers of domain name lookups and requests to authenticate VeriSign certificates as possible precursors to an electronic attack. A centralised early warning system for Internet...
[August 1, 2003, 10:40]
ICANN still rules the Net
News ICANN has come under fire for several recent actions, including a reform plan that involved the elimination of publicly elected board members and its process of selecting a successor to run the .org domain when VeriSign relinquishes control.
[September 23, 2002, 10:58]
TippingPoint to offer bug bounty
News Security intelligence company iDefense, which was recently acquired by VeriSign, and the Mozilla Foundation also pay security researchers, or hackers. Found a security bug? TippingPoint will pay you for the details.
[July 25, 2005, 15:05]
Microsoft proposes ID solution for spam
News Several companies have already announced plans to roll out products and services that support Sender ID, including Cloudmark, DoubleClick, IronPort Systems, Sendmail, Symantec, Tumbleweed and VeriSign, Microsoft said in a statement.
[August 13, 2004, 8:40]
Firefox improves pop-up ad blocking
Talkback Check with verisign.kcredden@kevinredden.name is a valid e-mail address. Here is my MO dealing with ads on web sites a) If it's an ad for a *local* business (say on the local BBS) I click on it, reguardless.
[April 4, 2005, 21:07]
IBM offers SMEs 'computing on demand'
News IBM and VeriSign will also release a security service that uses IBM Tivoli Access Manager to secure portals, extranets and other business applications. IBM is reaching out to smaller businesses with its "on-demand" computing model.
[November 13, 2002, 8:16]
Liberty Alliance unveiling spec
News Sun countered with Liberty in September and quickly assembled prestigious backers, including Bank of America, Fidelity Investments, Sprint, Vodafone, Nokia, eBay, American Airlines and VeriSign. Sun Microsystems and its allies will unveil the...
[July 10, 2002, 16:24]
Microsoft besieged by zero-day attacks
News There is more than one thing going on right now in terms of zero-days," said Ken Dunham, director of the rapid response team at VeriSign's iDefense. Microsoft issued a rare, out-of-cycle Windows patch on Tuesday that fixed one flaw, but attacks...
[September 28, 2006, 9:20]
Net attack flops, but threat persists
News VeriSign always look for ways to improve its security," he said. VeriSign, which maintains two root servers as well as just over a dozen dot-com top-level domain servers, is evaluating whether it needs to revamp security, said company spokesman...
[October 24, 2002, 9:42]
Security experts round on Oracle over unpatched holes
News Kornbrust is a respected researcher, security experts from VeriSign's iDefense and eEye Digital Security said. Serious unpatched security flaws exist in certain Oracle products, according to a German security researcher who said the software maker...
[July 20, 2005, 9:25]
Baltimore's death spells gloom for PKI
News Entrust, Verisign and RSA have had tough times too, but they had greater revenues and other revenue streams so they have survived and Baltimore hasn't because it failed to diversify. In March 2001, VeriSign, which acts as a certificate authority...
[November 28, 2003, 12:45]
Register.com wins injunction over domain names
News In June, the courts intervened to prevent domain name heavyweight VeriSign from sending misleading messages to consumers. Domain name registrar Register.com won a preliminary injunction against a competitor for alleged "domain name slamming," or...
[December 31, 2002, 10:01]
Netscape secure socket not secure
News Some of the things it looks for include: 1) the certificate must be issued by a trusted authority, like Verisign or Thawte.the certificate must not have expired. Like a security guard asleep at the front desk, Netscape's certificate management is...
[May 19, 2000, 9:24]
US firms see relaxation of EU privacy laws ahead
News As ZDNet UK reported last month, the Global Privacy Alliance consists of 12 US companies including IBM, Oracle and VeriSign. A group of US companies believes that it is making good progress in its attempt to change data protection legislation in...
[October 14, 2002, 16:04]
