Friday, February 10, 2012
Security
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RSA - Microsoft to push new anti-phishing technology
Microsoft and industry partners are pushing ahead with plans to make the Web a little safer with a new technology to combat phishing.
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The result of the process is something called an Extended Validation Secure Sockets Layer (EV SSL) certificate, which can be used by Web sites to help reassure Web surfers that they are handing over their private information to a legitimate site.
Microsoft is ahead of other browser-makers in supporting EV SSL certificates, which will work with Internet Explorer 7 by the end of this month. But for the technology to take off it must also be widely adopted by Web sites.
Microsoft plans to show that this is now happening, said Markellos Diorinos, product manager with the Internet Explorer team. "We're getting more and more names that are going to be supporting Extended Validation, and we'll be announcing the first ones at RSA," he said.
Sites that have been EV SSL-certified will look a little different from today's secure sites, which typically display a small "lock" icon in the Web browser.
When IE hits part of a Web site that supports the EV SSL standard, there will still be a lock icon but the address bar will also turn green. Users will also be able to see what country the Web site is based in and who has certified it. "What this really means is that someone went and made sure that this corporation is in good standing," Diorinos said.