Economy Impacts Wedding Entertainment Choices Aug 27, 2009
com is a proud member of the Better Business Bureau, TRUSTe, and is also a VeriSign Secured website. For more information, please visit. (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
Web's DNS Structure Remains Vulnerable Aug 27, 2009
VeriSign did not respond to InternetNews. com's query about the current status of DNSSEC deployment at press time. (Datamation)
VeriSign sells messaging unit to Syniverse for $175M Aug 26, 2009
The agreement, subject to working capital adjustments, would bring VeriSign s (NASDAQ: VRSN) affiliate, which had a revenue run rate of about $140 million over the last year, to Syniverse ... VeriSign, based in Mountain View, Calif ... VeriSign sold its communications services group to for $230 million last March. (Tampa Bay Business Journal, FL)
How secure is your card info? Aug 18, 2009
VeriSign, a firm that secures websites for e-commerce, told the BBC that credit and debit card information is "vulnerable" but they are working with retailers to change that. "Credit and debit card information is just not incredibly secure," said Perry Tancredi, VeriSign's senior product manager for fraud detection. (BBC News -- Business)
Some companies left behind in bull's dust Aug 12, 2009
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Rackspace wins expanded FreshBooks pact Aug 12, 2009
Rackspace wins expanded agreement with FreshBooks - San Antonio Business Journal. for free extra services. (San Antonio Business Journal, TX)
VeriSign names McLaughlin CEO Aug 11, 2009
Along with the majority of VeriSign's senior executive team, he will continue to be based in Dulles. McLaughlin is a resident of Leesburg in Loudoun County, where VeriSign is one of the county's largest employers, according to company officials ... Former CEO and VeriSign founder Jim Bidzos will continue as executive chairman effective Aug. 17. (Washington Business Journal, DC)
Stock questions? Ask Matt Aug 11, 2009
Rising tide has lifted most boats, but these stocks sank - USATODAY.com. Rising tide has lifted most boats, but these stocks sank. (USA Today -- Money)
VeriSign posts $35M profit in Q2 Aug 7, 2009
Mountain View-based VeriSign (NASDAQ:VRSN) had $257 million in revenue, compared to $242 million in the year-ago quarter. Excluding items, the company would have earned $61 million, or 31 cents a share. (San Jose Business Journal, CA)
VeriSign names new CEO, CFO Aug 7, 2009
Mountain View-based VeriSign (NASDAQ:VRSN) said its founder, Jim Bidzos, will be permanent executive chairman ... McLaughlin, 43, has served as president and chief operating officer of VeriSign since January ... Robins had served as senior vice president, finance, at VeriSign since August 2007. (San Jose Business Journal, CA)
SecureWorks raises $31M to expand Aug 5, 2009
The VeriSign acquisition allows SecureWorks to bulk up fast and do it for less than it if it tried to grow organically, analyst John Pescatore said ... VeriSign also delivered large and high-profile enterprise clients to SecureWorks ... VeriSign gives SecureWorks an international footprint, too helping it compete with global competitors. (Atlanta Business Chronicle, GA)
Sales jump 35% at TNS Aug 5, 2009
2 million contribution from TNS Communication Services Group acquired from Verisign Inc. on May 1. The second-quarter earnings of 56 cents per share, excluding acquisition-related costs, surpassed the upper end of our outlook range as our Telecommunication Services Division benefited from a stronger than expected contribution from the CSG acquisition and our POS division recorded slightly better than expected revenue, said CEO Henry Graham, Jr.. (Washington Business Journal, DC)
TECH CHRONICLES Common Web safeguard might not be all that safe... Aug 4, 2009
VeriSign, one of the leaders in SSL certificates, said its products are not vulnerable to this type of assault. A daily dose of postings from The Chronicle's technology blog (sfgate. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Technology)
Hackers expose weakness in trusted sites Aug 3, 2009
VeriSign Inc., one of the biggest SSL certificate companies, maintains that its certificates aren't vulnerable. Tim Callan, a product marketing executive in VeriSign's SSL business unit, added that the "tap" won't work against so-called Extended Validation SSL certificates, which cost more and involve a deeper inspection of a company's application for a certificate ... VeriSign's Callan said within hours of the talks, his company got a number of applications for SSL certificates featuring null... (MSNBC -- Technology)
Kaminsky Warns of SSL Vulnerabilities Aug 1, 2009
First, certificate authorities should rework any old MD2-signed certs -- something that VeriSign, which manages ... "The company no longer uses the MD2 hash algorithm standard to sign any of its certificates," Tim Callan, vice president of product marketing at VeriSign (NASDAQ: VRSN) told InternetNews ... "Last year, VeriSign implemented a process for transitioning off MD2 and, as of May 17th, the transition to the SHA-1 algorithm has been completed." The SHA-1 algorithm is considered to be more... (SmallBusinessComputing)
RealNetworks Announces Second Quarter 2009 Results Jul 31, 2009
Factors that could cause actual results to differ from the results predicted include: fluctuations in foreign currencies; the potential outcomes and effects of claims and legal proceedings, including those relating to Real DVD and the ongoing VeriSign arbitration, on Real's business prospects, financial condition or results of operations; development and consumer acceptance of legal online music distribution services generally and RealNetworks' content services in particular because these are... (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
Open-source Project Aims to Makes Secure DNS Easier Jul 31, 2009
VeriSign, which is the registry for ".com," said in February it will implement DNSSEC across top-level domains including. com by 2011. (Yahoo News -- Technology)
3 Debit Card Scams to Avoid Jul 29, 2009
Many big sites also post the "VeriSign Secured" checkmark icon, which is another indication of safety, at the bottom right of the checkout page. 3. (CBS News)
When there are no IP addresses Jul 25, 2009
Web clients, servers and internet service providers (ISPs) will much rather look at deployment of alternate technologies to circumvent the addressing problem than attempt a complete overhaul of standards, said Verisign India vice president Shekhar Kirani. IPV6 deployment stands at a mere 0. (India Times)
Cyber crooks get business savvy Jul 15, 2009
"It's unfortunate but in places like Facebook, MySpace and Twitter where generally good people hang out and share information quickly and freely, there will be those who are not as honest who take advantage," said Ken Silva, the chief technology officer of VeriSign, a company that secures the internet ... "We just don't speak the same language and we don't have the contacts to quickly call up our counterparts and ask for help. We need a long term strategic approach and we need to continue to... (BBC News -- Technology)
AP Settles Case Over Copying of News Stories Jul 14, 2009
It brought a similar case against Moreover Technologies Inc. and its parent company, VeriSign Inc., in 2007, accusing Moreover of using AP headlines, photos and stories without permission. That case centered on the "fair use" doctrine of copyright law, which allows quoting from copyright-protected material but not the reproduction of whole works. (ABC News -- Wire)
Welcome! You've Got Hackers! Jul 14, 2009
Sure, you can attempt to profit from it by buying firms like Cisco or Verisign, but there's a less salient threat to all investors. Unless continued efforts are made to combat and deter the problem, holding stocks that are vital to American commerce such as NYSE Euronext, Nasdaq OMX, or US Bancorp carry an additional level of risk. (MSNBC -- Business)
The hard part of DNS security lies beyond the next deadline Jul 10, 2009
Contributions to the progress of DNSSEC deployment include the signing of the dot-gov generic top-level domain in February, signing of the dot-org zone in June, and efforts by NIST and the National Telecommunications and Information Administration, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers and VeriSign to come up with a practical scheme for deploying DNSSEC in the Internets authoritative root zone. NIST also has set up a test bed, the Secure Naming Infrastructure Pilot, to help... (FCW.com)
investigating a South Korean cyber-attack Jul 9, 2009
"There is a connection between what is going on here in the states and what is going on in [South] Korea," said Richard Howard, director of intelligence at VeriSign's iDefense cyber-security unit. Those responsible used a method similar to attacks in recent years on the governments of Estonia and Georgia, called a "distributed denial of service" attack. (Harper's Magazine)
More Webcasts Jul 5, 2009
This Webcast Produced for VeriSign Your network may be nailed down tight inside the perimeter, but these days employees on the road; remote offices and partners need access from outside the firewall ... This Webcast Produced for VeriSign Buying goods and services online is now an everyday activity for millions of consumers and businesses worldwide. (IntranetJournal)
IIJ Launches LaIT for SMEs Jul 1, 2009
"market" : {"NAME" : "U.S.", "ID" : "us_market", "TZ" : "ET", "TZOFFSET" : "-14400", "open" : "1246455042", "close" : "1246478442", "flags" : {}} , "STREAMER_SERVER" : "http://streamerapi.finance.yahoo.com","arrowAsChangeSign" : false,"throttleInterval": "1000". Search for share prices. (Primezone Releases)
Top Web Agency Hires Former Cybersecurity Czar Jun 27, 2009
The board also indicated that when new domain names are introduced in any language, the operators of such names won't be able to create redirection services such as the Site Finder service that ".com" operator VeriSign Inc. briefly offered in 2003. Although it helped Internet users find Web sites when they mistype addresses, the company pulled it following complaints that it also broke some Internet tools like spam filters and gave VeriSign an unfair competitive advantage in search. (Fox News)
Internet Security Expert Named ICANN CEO Jun 26, 2009
"Rod Beckstrom's unique blend of experience as a high-tech entrepreneur, public servant and leading international thinker are just what ICANN needs as it enters the next phase of its development. VeriSign looks forward to working with Mr. Beckstrom and his staff as they tackle the issues critical to the Internet community and Internet users." - Mark McLaughlin, President and Chief Operating Officer of VeriSign. "I'd liked to extend my congratulations to Mr. Beckstrom for his appointment as... (PR Newswire)
Airvana and VeriSign Team for Femtocell Network Authentication Jun 23, 2009
The work between VeriSign and Airvana builds on efforts currently taking place within the Femto Forum and the 3GPP SA3 security standards group to establish an implementation standard for network authentication for femtocells using a certificate-based model. The use of certificates has already proven successful for similar technologies such as cable modems -- with VeriSign providing trusted solutions for that community ... "Collaborating with Airvana, a leader in the femtocell market, will once... (PR Newswire)
EV-SSL Gains Adoption, May Boost Web Sales Jun 23, 2009
For online businesses, one possible route could be by way of upgrading their SSL () certificates to EV-SSL (Extended Validation), according to VeriSign ... Tim Callan, vice president of product marketing at VeriSign (NASDAQ: VRSN), said that it was difficult to say whether the economy having an impact on the sale of EV-SSL certificates at his company ... Now three months later, VeriSign is reporting a 25 percent gain with 10,000 EV-SSL certificates sold in total. (SmallBusinessComputing)
Legit websites face malware hits Jun 18, 2009
"Today's sophisticated web is much more complex than in the past with richer functionality, third party widgets, video, new sources of content from other places like mash-ups and user generated content. Web based attacks have increased 600% over the last two years "All these increase the attack surface and the vulnerability for attacks," said Dasient's Ameet Ranadive a former strategy consultant at McKinsey. He also pointed to the fact that hackers are much more automated in their approach... (BBC News -- Technology)
Is the Domain Name Biz Recession Proof? Jun 6, 2009
According to the latest Domain Name Industry Brief from VeriSign (NASDAQ: VRSN), at the end of the first quarter of 2009 there was a total 183 million domain names registered across all Top Level Domain (TLD) names, representing a 12 percent increase on a year-over-year basis. That said, new domain growth is actually slowing, according to a different metric in the VeriSign report ... The VeriSign report stated that 11. (SmallBusinessComputing)
The (Big) Cost of Securing .ORG Jun 5, 2009
"We now have only two out of a total of close to 400, so obviously that number has to increase so consumers have choice and can stay with their existing registrars, Ram said. While .org is now being set up for DNSSEC, other top-level domains, including .com, still need to be signed. VeriSign (NASDAQ: VRSN), the vendor that operates .com, has told InternetNews.com that they are , although no firm date has been set for broad deployment. Afilias operates 15 other top-level domains, including .info... (eSecurityPlanet)
Cyber tsar 'golden opportunity' May 30, 2009
" Ken Silva who is the chief technology officer of VeriSign, that works to ensure the safety of the internet, has advocated the need for government to work more closely with industry. "The first order of business has to be to draw attention to the subject and then start working with all the agencies and organisations throughout industry and government. "You have to be able to kick all these different groups in the seat of the pants to get them moving in the same direction.". (BBC News -- Technology)
SecureWorks, VeriSign in $45M deal May 27, 2009
But a source familiar with the deal said SecureWorks will pay $40 million to $50 million for the VeriSign unit, which has been on the market since December 2007 ... The VeriSign unit acquisition will allow SecureWorks to bulk up fast and do it for less than it if it tried to grow organically, Gartner analyst John Pescatore said ... The estimated $45 million price tag, Pescatore said, is reasonable considering the VeriSign unit's growth potential and existing client base. (Atlanta Business Chronicle, GA)
Tweet This: DC Duo Announces 'The Cool Twitter Conferences World Tour' May 27, 2009
Tweet This: DC Duo Announces 'The Cool Twitter Conferences World Tour' - Yahoo. Tweet This: DC Duo Announces 'The Cool Twitter Conferences World Tour. (Yahoo News -- Press Releases)
Nigeria: Govt Attains Full Control of .ng ccTLD May 18, 2009
Ndukwe stated that Nigeria had for long sought for full control which if finally attained at "exactly 4pm GMT May 13, 2009, when Verisign made the ICANN approved root server changes to the .ng ccTLD, a few hours later ICANN/IANA effected the board approved redelegation of the Nigerian ccTLD on the IANA website" He reiterated that "This effectively brings to an end the long drawn desire and expectation of the Nigerian Internet community to effect redelegation of the .ng ccTLD and full local... (allAfrica.com)
Classified cyber data stolen; sold to Chinese May 16, 2009
This is yet another example of China relentlessly carrying out its long-standing policy to gain strategic advantage over America by extracting as much commercial and military data from the USA as it can, says Rick Howard, director of security intelligence at VeriSign iDefense. It appears some folks in Washington D.C. want the public take heed of cyber espionage. (USA Today -- Tech)
Economy Is Down but Domain Business Is Up May 11, 2009
VeriSign reports that its revenues rose on the strength of increasing domain and SSL registrations ... While most technology vendors are seeing revenue declines as a result of the recession, VeriSign (NASDAQ: VRSN) is reporting a revenue gain for its first quarter of 2009 ... VeriSign reported that revenues in its naming business, which includes. (SmallBusinessComputing)
World will change ICANN's future, CEO says May 10, 2009
Q: ICANN has had a sort of love/hate relationship with VeriSign over the years. (VeriSign's legal challenge to ICANN's authority was settled in 2006 ... Also, the present leadership of VeriSign has been very constructive. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Business)
VeriSign swings to $65M Q1 profit May 8, 2009
Mountain View-based VeriSign (NASDAQ:VRSN) reported revenue of $255 million, compared to $235. 3 million in the year-ago quarter. (San Jose Business Journal, CA)
TNS closes on VeriSign group May 5, 2009
-based VeriSign (NASDAQ: VRSN), will be integrated into TNS telecommunication services division. VeriSign s segment provides intelligent database services, such as caller ID, to the telecommunications industry, as well as roaming and clearing services to the wireless telecommunications industry. (Washington Business Journal, DC)
US cyber-security 'embarrassing' Apr 30, 2009
For security firm VeriSign, a shift in how people practise security is what is needed ... To that end, VeriSign has introduced a security application that produces an ever-changing password credential for secure transactions on the iPhone or Blackberry. (BBC News)
Obama to boost federal R&D spending Apr 28, 2009
com - Obama to boost federal Rding. Obama to boost federal Rding Google, Microsoft execs named to advisory body. (EETimes)
Tips for safe online shopping Apr 20, 2009
Trust marks such as the VeriSign Secured Seal, or a green address bar in Internet explorer. Colour-coded address bars are a feature of Extended Validation Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) certificates, which provide added information about a website's authenticity. (India Times, India)
The top 200 companies Apr 20, 2009
Market capitalization is as of March 31. Here are the largest public companies in the nine-county Bay Area ranked by revenue during the most recent four quarters for which data were available. (San Francisco Chronicle)
An End To Tax-Free Online Shopping? Apr 16, 2009
"The states are desperate for new revenue and I think 000035FF they realize they're straying far from the simplification they originally promised," said Steve DelBianco, executive director of NetChoice, which counts as members AOL, eBay, NewsCorp, Oracle, Verisign, and Yahoo. "That creates an urgency on their part, to get the federal mandate before it becomes clear they have no intention to simplify.". (CBS News)
WFS Conference: The Future of VC, M&A, Private Equity and Public Offerings in the New Tech Landscape Apr 14, 2009
com; Buyers panel featuring corporate development professionals from Google, VMWare, Verisign and Yahoo; Private Equity Roundtable: "Reshaping the tech landscape during a credit crunch"; Software and IT Met Update, and more. Why is WFS sponsoring the Mth and Exit Strategies conference. (Yahoo News -- Press Releases)
Phony Austin, Texas Police Twitter Account Highlights Need for Nixle, a New Secure Community Information Service Apr 10, 2009
Nixle's security is bolstered by agreements with Verisign, Nlets (the International Justice and Public Safety Network) and the National Conference of Mayors. Aside from the security measure, another key feature of Nixle is its geographical targeting. (PR Newswire)
New Web address endings could be start of turf wars Apr 9, 2009
net, according to VeriSign, the company that manages those extensions. Liliana Gil, director of global marketing services with Johnson & Johnson, doesn't see the common suffixes being overtaken but believes, "This could be a fun new way to communicate a message digitally. ...You could have tylenol.children, tylenol.pm.". (USA Today -- Tech)
Zetta Moves Primary Storage to the Cloud Apr 7, 2009
Treuhaft hails from VeriSign and Netscape, and the company's other co-founders came from Netscape and online photo sharing site Shutterfly, where they developed the storage technology that underlies Zetta's offering. That technology includes a proprietary file system, encryption and security, compliance, guaranteed performance, and data integrity and protection, all for 25 cents a gigabyte per month with pricing declining based on volume and bandwidth charges that come in at about 20 percent of... (EnterpriseStorageForum)
Keytime makes noise about Books Apr 3, 2009
Client data is secured by Thawte, a subsidiary of VeriSign, and back-ups are performed every half hour. Keytime's Anthony Boggiano spoke with AccountingWeb about the launch of Books: "We have carried out development work to integrate Books with the Keytime Accountants Suite, as per the press release, and are looking to make the Books platform the basis of a whole range of products in the future.". (Accounting Web, UK)
New Study of Mobile Web Trends Demonstrates Strong Growth of Mobile Content Availability Apr 2, 2009
Today, VeriSign estimates there are approximately 77. 4 million live ".com" and ".net" Web sites. (PR Newswire)
Worm attack chaos fails to strike Apr 2, 2009
" Help identify In February Microsoft put up a bounty of $250,000 to anyone who could help identify those behind Conficker. It also issued patches to address the vulnerability. Industry experts say consumers and companies should regularly update their security software and apply Windows updates as well as protect computers and files with strong passwords. Conficker is an aggressive worm that has crawled into millions of machines Symantec has issued a free trial version of its products that will... (BBC News -- Technology)
The internet Worm to be feared or April Fools' joke? Apr 2, 2009
Michael La Pilla, manager of the malicious code operations team at VeriSign Inc.'s iDefense division, said some of his company's customers were asking for immediate notification about changes to Conficker's behavior, instead of the hourly updates that many receive. The bad guys behind Conficker haven't been able to reliably communicate with the computers the worm has infected. (Casa Grande Valley Newspapers, AZ)
Security experts eye worm attack Apr 1, 2009
VeriSign, one of the guardians of the networked world, believes these bugs exist because the general level of security is just not high enough. "This is a testament to making consumer products useable and user friendly, which means security has to be relaxed a little," said VeriSign's chief technology officer Ken Silva. (BBC News -- Technology)
IGN's Guide to Conficker Apr 1, 2009
Additionally, Microsoft has partnered with various security firms and domain holders to identify, monitor, and combat the worm around the globe, including VeriSign, AOL, and Georgia Tech. Individual users can protect themselves by installing the most recent security update from Microsoft, as well as an update to Windows' AutoRun that disables the feature and prevents the virus' spread through external media. (IGN Gear)
The Tech Lab Apr 1, 2009
Ken Silva, chief technology officer at Verisign, warns about the dangers that threaten the open internet. Ask internet users what they want from their service and 99 times out of 100 the answer will be the same: more - more speed, more bandwidth and more flexibility of use. (BBC News -- Technology)
U.S. Mobile Banking Market Set for Take-Off Mar 28, 2009
BANGALORE (Reuters) - Technology companies like Sybase and VeriSign are looking to tap robust growth in the nascent U.S. mobile banking market as text message use rises and banks aggressively explore ways to save ... About 244 billion messages were delivered through VeriSign's mobile media division in 2008, a 134 percent increase over 2007 ... VeriSign says it owns 60 percent of the U.S. inter-carrier market. (ABC News -- Wire)
Nixle and VeriSign Messaging and Mobile Media Enable Police and Municipal Governments Nationwide to Reach Residents via SMS Messages Mar 25, 2009
MOUNT LAUREL, N.J., March 24 /PRNewswire/ -- , LLC, an information and technology company, and VeriSign Messaging and Mobile Media, a division of , Inc. (Nasdaq: ), have joined forces to enable police and municipal organizations nationwide to communicate neighborhood-level information with their residents, via SMS messages, over a powerful and reliable platform ... VeriSign delivers messages on behalf of carriers and content providers around the world ... Offering one of the most robust and... (PR Newswire)
1 Microsoft: Big Bounty for Conflicker Mar 20, 2009
Conficker Cabal members also include Internet players such as ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers; messaging services vendor Neustar (NYSE: NSR); Internet infrastructure giant VeriSign (NASDAQ: VRSN); and the Public Internet Registry, which manages the. org domain. (eSecurityPlanet)
GigMasters Reveals 2008 Rising Star Award Winners Mar 19, 2009
com is a proud member of the Better Business Bureau, TRUSTe, and is also a VeriSign Secured website. For more information, please visit. (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
Certicom shareholders vote approve RIM takeover Mar 19, 2009
50 per share, setting off a bidding war with California-based VeriSign Inc.P. Waterloo, Ont. (Globe and Mail -- Technology)
ShopSmart Reveals Tips All Online Shoppers Should Know Mar 17, 2009
Symbols at the bottom of a Web page, such as Hacker Safe (now McAfee Secure), VeriSign Secured and TRUSTe, can help you determine if a site is legit. But be warned: These seals can be fraudulently copied and pasted onto a page. (PR Newswire)
New Efforts Promote DNS Security Mar 17, 2009
VeriSign, the company that manages the root DNS zones InternetNews. com that its working on a test bed now to get the root zone signed. (eSecurityPlanet)
