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Die Nachrichtenagentur Reuters hat nun aufgedeckt, was US-Sicherheitsunternehmen und Domain-Registrar VeriSign seit beinahe zwei Jahren geheim hält: Ausgerechnet dieses Unternehmen, das dafür sorgen soll, dass die Hälfte der weltweiten Websites richtig angesurft wird, wurde 2010 gleich mehrmals gehackt. Dabei wurden auch Informationen gestohlen - so könnten Kriminelle "fast jede Firma im Netz i...

The trade press is abuzz today with reports about a security breach at Verisign. While a security breach at the company that runs .COM, .NET, and does the mechanical parts of managing the DNS root is interesting, this shouldn't be news, at least, not now. Since Verisign is a public company, they file a financial report called a 10-Q with the SEC every quarter. According to the SEC's web site,...

mask.of.sanity writes "Verisign admitted it was hacked repeatedly last year and cannot pin down what data was stolen. It says it doesn't believe the Domain Name System servers were hacked but it cannot rule it out. Symantec, which bought its certificate business in 2010, says also that there was no evidence that system was affected. Verisign further admitted in an SEC filing that its security t...

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - VeriSign Inc, the company in charge of delivering people safely to more than half the world's websites, has been hacked repeatedly by outsiders who stole undisclosed information from the leading Internet infrastructure company.

VeriSign, Inc. (NASDAQ: VRSN,  announced financial results for the fourth quarter of 2011 and year ended Dec. 31, 2011 after the market closed today Verisign Registry Services ended the quarter (December 31) with approximately 113.8 million active domain names in the adjusted zone for .com and .net, representing an 8% increase year-over-year. In the fourth quarter, Verisign added 7.9 million ne...

Get ready for a world of domain name clutter.

Verisign has released their latest quarterly Domain Name Industry covering the 3rd quarter of 2011. The new report shows domain registrations worldwide continued to grow at a steady clip as the quarter closed with just under 220 million domains registered across all TLDs - a jump of over 8%. ccTLDs regs rose even more.

Security researcher Mikko Hypponen reports finding a piece of malicious software that was cryptographically signed by a forged Adobe certificate originating with Government of Malaysia: Malaysian Agricultural Research and Development Institute, whose signing certificate was "stolen quite some time ago." There are several hundred parties that are trusted by OSes, browsers and software to issue [...