Wednesday, April 25, 2012
Apple's IPv6 misstep is a sign of the times Lack of IPv6 feature parity for network hardware, software and services is one of the biggest challenges in deployment of new standard
Tuesday, January 03, 2012
Five major changes facing the Internet in 2012 FRAMINGHAM, Mass.-- 2012 is poised to go down in Internet history as one of the most significant 12-month periods from both a technical and policy perspective since the late 1990s, when this...
Tuesday, May 31, 2011
Cyberattacks can justify armed response, Pentagon says The U.S. Department of Defense is ready to use 'all available means' to counter cyberattacks, the agency says. The DOD's policy seems to be in line with President Barack Obama's International Strategy for Cyberspace, released in early May
Friday, April 01, 2011
Tighter security available to .com sites with upgrade VeriSign boosts security for .com sites. The Internet’s largest domain adds the DNS security standard
Monday, January 31, 2011
Drive-by malware targets business Web sites Embedding malware in legitimate business Web sites is becoming a more prevalent vector of attack, experts say
Tuesday, October 12, 2010
VeriSign: We will keep our lead in IPv6 Although the amount of IPv6 traffic it sees is minimal, the back-end operator of the Internet's.com and .net domains says it's ready for carriers
Tuesday, August 17, 2010
Entrust launches managed security service Secure E-mail Certificates is a managed service that lets users encrypt and digitally sign e-mails through a browser. Entrust Inc. is selling one version for enterprises and a no-frills version for personal use.
Thursday, July 15, 2010
Will security worries propel DNS into the cloud? The number of companies offering hosted DNS services continues to increase because adding DNSSEC makes domain name services management harder
Wednesday, June 16, 2010
Internet's root security reaches 'key' milestone A cryptographic key will be generated on one of the Internet's 13 root servers to deploy DNSSEC. When fully implemented next year, it should end spoofing attacks 
Wednesday, May 19, 2010
Symantec to buy VeriSign's authentication business The security giant will pay US$1.28 billion for VeriSign's authentication technology. The deal is expected to close by September
Wednesday, May 19, 2010
Symantec to buy VeriSign unit for $1.3B: reports Two media outlets have reported VeriSign Inc. is looking for a buyer for its authentication unit, and one published report quotes sources stating Symantec Corp. is close to a deal. Neither vendor was willing to comment early Wednesday
Monday, January 18, 2010
VeriSign retracts claim on Adobe security flaw Last week, VeriSign Inc. had claimed a vulnerability in Adobe Reader appeared to be the cause of attacks against Google and other companies. But the attack was later revealed to be caused by a hole in Microsoft Corp.’s Internet Explorer browser
Thursday, January 14, 2010
Hackers rigged PDFs to attack Google, Adobe Analysts at VeriSign Inc. said attacks were launched by attaching malicious files to e-mails but later retracted its claim. Adobe Systems Inc. has patched a vulnerability in its Portable Document Format (PDF) software but a researcher from F-Secure Corp. says PDFs were used to attack both Adobe and Google Inc.
Monday, December 21, 2009
YEAR IN REVIEW: January 2009 In January, the biggest stories included the economic hangover continuing with more high-tech layoffs, industry watchers pondering the effect of newly minted U.S. president Barack Obama, Downadup laying in wait and Microsoft offering a Windows 7 beta for download. Read about the year that was
Thursday, July 05, 2007
Multivendor systems can work together A unique demonstration showed user-centric identity software from major vendors, start-ups, one-woman projects and open source hackers all working in concert to replace passwords with validated identity-card access to Web-based resources.
Sunday, June 24, 2007
Web 2.0 sites devouring network bandwidth Increasingly popular social-networking sites such as MySpace, YouTube and Facebook are accounting for such huge volumes of DNS queries and bandwidth consumption that carriers, universities and corporations are scrambling to keep pace. 
Thursday, March 30, 2006
Bank fights phishing with electronic signatures German retail banking giant Postbank AG, the target of several phishing attacks, aims to curb the theft of online personal information with the help of electronic signatures.
Monday, March 13, 2006
Hacked bank server hosts phishing sites Criminals appear to have hacked a Chinese bank's server and are using it to host phishing sites to steal personal data from customers of eBay Inc. and a major U.S. bank., according to Internet services company Netcraft Ltd.
Sunday, December 04, 2005
IGF keeps U.S. control over Internet, says analyst Creation of the Internet Governance Forum (IGF) will only succeed in keeping control over the Internet in the hands of the U.S., says one Canadian research firm. The IGF is to be set up following an agreement signed recently at the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) in Tunis, Tunisia. London, Ont.-based Info-Tech Research has described the soon-to-be-created body as a "non-binding" international forum to address concerns relating to the Internet. The research firm said such a forum only delays the imminent "showdown over control of the Internet." 
Thursday, March 04, 2004
Despite flak, ICANN attends to 'business as usual' Apparently unfazed by being hit with two fresh lawsuits calling the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers' (ICANN) authority into question, the group's head characterized its meeting in Rome this week as "business as usual." 
Friday, November 21, 2003
Online fraud concerns rise as holidays near The upcoming holiday shopping season promises to be a busy one not just for Internet retailers, but for opportunistic online fraudsters and identity thieves as well.
Wednesday, June 04, 2003
TECH ED: Microsoft, VeriSign raise security stakes Microsoft Corp. is raising the stakes in security, announcing on Thursday PKI services for Windows with VeriSign Communications Inc. and security certification training for Microsoft system administrators and engineers.
Thursday, November 14, 2002
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Tuesday, April 30, 2002
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Thursday, April 11, 2002
New Web services standards proposed Microsoft, IBM and VeriSign announced a joint effort to craft new standards for addressing security concerns that many corporate users have raised about Web services.