VeriSign said Wednesday it will purchase Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) certificate provider GeoTrust for about $125 million in cash, a deal that will give VeriSign access to GeoTrust’s extensive reseller ...

Comodo announced today that it requested an independent third-party to notify VeriSign of a security vulnerability affecting its customers’ web sites, including a major financial institution. VeriSign ...

Altogether, the Symantec-VeriSign deal will give the security giant VeriSign's SSL Certificate Services, Public Key Infrastructure, VeriSign Trust Services and VeriSign Identity Protection ...

VeriSign moved to allay confusion on Thursday, after the expiration of some of its certificates that verified it as a certificate-issuing authority. Users have experienced problems when accessing ...

Cybertrust today launched its Extended Validation SSL certificate offering, joining VeriSign and other certificate authorities in supporting the new browser security standard. But some experts are ...

I think it's because everyone has heard of Verisign. "Oh, my banking website uses Versign, so I'm good to go". Or maybe it's the same question as "Why does this ${namebrand} of jeans cost 3 times what ...

Symantec will pay $1.28 billion to acquire VeriSign’s security business. The two companies confirmed the rumored acquisition Wednesday, saying it would give VeriSign the opportunity to focus on its ...

A new SSL certificate will provide stronger protection for online transactions by storing private key information in a hardware security module, according to a statement released Monday by VeriSign ...

I'm in a bit of a bind and I need to get an Exchange server setup and running within the next week. I want to go ahead and also setup a new SSL certificate from a new provider.<BR><BR>Right now I have ...

New plugin mimics IE 7 by displaying a green address bar for highly-trusted sites that use EV SSL encryption Verisign has brought a new technology used to identify trusted Web sites to the Firefox ...

BANGALORE (Reuters) - Internet security and naming services provider VeriSign Inc sees near-term pricing pressure in its online security certificates business, but expects to grow margins in 2010 by ...