Verisign, One of the leading security providers for half of the website in world has now some seriouse security breach issues from hackers.
Though there is no official statement on the hack. Verisign has been hacked several times made off with data.
Reuters reported the news today and information was made public. Verisign offers several top level domains including .com, .net, and .gov. actual breach was happen in 2010 though it was not revealead yet by the gaint security firm.
According to Computer World, “Prior to August 2010, VeriSign was the world’s largest SSL (secure socket layer) certificate issuing authority. In May of that year, Symantec announced it would acquire VeriSign’s authentication business, including SSL certificate generation, for $1.2 billion. The acquisition was finalized Aug. 9, 2010.”
In reply to the news, Verisign says that the company did “not believe these attacks breached servers that support our Domain Name System Network.” However, since the details of the breach have not been disclosed, this is cold comfort.
Though there is no official statement on the hack. Verisign has been hacked several times made off with data.
Reuters reported the news today and information was made public. Verisign offers several top level domains including .com, .net, and .gov. actual breach was happen in 2010 though it was not revealead yet by the gaint security firm.
According to Computer World, “Prior to August 2010, VeriSign was the world’s largest SSL (secure socket layer) certificate issuing authority. In May of that year, Symantec announced it would acquire VeriSign’s authentication business, including SSL certificate generation, for $1.2 billion. The acquisition was finalized Aug. 9, 2010.”
In reply to the news, Verisign says that the company did “not believe these attacks breached servers that support our Domain Name System Network.” However, since the details of the breach have not been disclosed, this is cold comfort.
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