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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Following the success of researchers last week in creating a false SSL certificate based on VeriSign’s RapidSSL brand, the company is scrambling to explain how it happened, how it’s preventing it from ...

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 ...

Symantec announced a definitive deal Wednesday with VeriSign to acquire its identity and authentication business for $1.28 billion in cash, incorporating its SSL Certificate Services, Public Key ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

SAN FRANCISCO, May 19 (Reuters) - Symantec Corp agreed to buy VeriSign Inc's widely used technology for securing payments over the Internet in a deal worth $1.28 billion, the companies said on ...

Symantec will pay US$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 ...