VeriSign
DNS 'blacklist' unveiled
Aug. 18, 2009
Nominum plans to announce on Tuesday a novel DNS security capability that functions like a spam blacklist, providing automated, real-time checking of DNS queries against a list of Web sites that are known to be ...
Online banking security boost: Credit union shifts to two-factor authentication - Network ...
Jul. 28, 2009
Addison Avenue Federal Credit Union is strengthening its online banking security by implementing two-factor variable-password authentication.
VeriSign: We will support DNS security in 2011
Feb. 24, 2009
VeriSign has promised to deploy DNS Security Extensions – known as DNSSEC – across all of its top-level domains within two years.
RIM's new bid for Certicom trumps VeriSign's, says board
Feb. 06, 2009
Research In Motion has doubled the value of its previous offer to buy elliptic curve cryptography specialist Certicom, one of its suppliers. Certicom's board of directors says RIM's latest offer is superior to the bid ...
Rogue SSL certificate exploit puts VeriSign on the spot
Jan. 06, 2009
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 reoccurring, and ...
Token resistance
Dec. 15, 2008
The need for strong authentication to protect online transactions and to comply with new regulations spawned a host of start-ups over the past couple of years offering exotic types of two-factor authentication.
VeriSign, NeuStar and others team on DNS security
Dec. 09, 2008
Momentum continues to build for rapid deployment of DNS encryption mechanisms.
Experts to Feds: Sign the DNS root ASAP
Nov. 25, 2008
Internet security gurus and leading vendors are urging the U.S. federal government to rapidly deploy security and authentication mechanisms at the top level of the DNS hierarchy, which is known as the root zone.
U.S. gov't proposes digital signing of DNS root zone file
Oct. 10, 2008
The U.S. government is soliciting input on a way to make the Internet's addressing system less susceptible to tampering by hackers.
Major security sites hit by XSS bugs
Jun. 11, 2008
The Web sites of three of the security industry's best-known companies include security flaws that could be used to launch scams against customers, according to a new report.
Spear-phishing attacks have hooked 15,000, says VeriSign
Jun. 06, 2008
Two groups of criminals have stolen data from an estimated 15,000 victims over the past 15 months, using targeted "spear-phishing" e-mail attacks, according to researchers at VeriSign.
New open source DNS server released
May. 20, 2008
A group of experts has released an open source alternative to the BIND DNS server software that boasts higher performance and better security.
VeriSign: 33 million Internet domain names added in 2007
Mar. 06, 2008
The Internet grew by almost 33 million domain names last year, according to the fourth quarter 2007 Domain Name Industry released Wednesday by VeriSign, a digital infrastructure vendor that manages Internet domain names ...
With racy name, bug-finder gets no credit from Microsoft
Feb. 15, 2008
When a hacker going by the name Chujwamwdupe published attack code that exploited a recently patched bug in Microsoft Office 2003 earlier this week, it looked almost as if he were publishing the software out of spite.
Two-factor authentication: Hot technology for 2008
Jan. 14, 2008
We've known for a long time that requiring just a user name and password to get on the network or to access personal information on a Web site isn't the tightest security posture, but there weren't a lot of good ...
Watching the registrars
Jan. 11, 2008
Network Solutions has once again shown that it can't be trusted in its role as a domain name registrar.
Symantec taps VeriSign, Accenture to bolster security
Oct. 10, 2006
Symantec Corp. is teaming with VeriSign Inc. and Accenture Ltd. as part of its Security 2.0 strategy for protecting consumers and enterprise users from the latest and greatest security threats, which Symantec says are ...
VeriSign service aims to curb ID theft
Feb. 10, 2006
VeriSign is rolling out a new beta service for financial institutions to help protect online bankers against the growing threat of identity theft, officials said Thursday.
Token resistance
Dec. 15, 2008
The need for strong authentication to protect online transactions and to comply with new regulations spawned a host of start-ups over the past couple of years offering exotic types of two-factor authentication.
VeriSign, NeuStar and others team on DNS security
Dec. 09, 2008
Momentum continues to build for rapid deployment of DNS encryption mechanisms.
Experts to Feds: Sign the DNS root ASAP
Nov. 25, 2008
Internet security gurus and leading vendors are urging the U.S. federal government to rapidly deploy security and authentication mechanisms at the top level of the DNS hierarchy, which is known as the root zone.
U.S. gov't proposes digital signing of DNS root zone file
Oct. 10, 2008
The U.S. government is soliciting input on a way to make the Internet's addressing system less susceptible to tampering by hackers.
Major security sites hit by XSS bugs
Jun. 11, 2008
The Web sites of three of the security industry's best-known companies include security flaws that could be used to launch scams against customers, according to a new report.
Spear-phishing attacks have hooked 15,000, says VeriSign
Jun. 06, 2008
Two groups of criminals have stolen data from an estimated 15,000 victims over the past 15 months, using targeted "spear-phishing" e-mail attacks, according to researchers at VeriSign.
New open source DNS server released
May. 20, 2008
A group of experts has released an open source alternative to the BIND DNS server software that boasts higher performance and better security.
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VeriSign profile
Overview
2005 NW200 rank: 51
2004 NW200 rank: 60
Revenue
| Total '05 revenue (in $M) |
|
1610 |
| '04-'05 revenue change |
|
38% |
| '01-'05 CAGR revenue |
|
13% |
Profit
| Profit or loss (in $M) |
|
407 |
| Change from '04 |
|
118 |
| As percentage of revenue 25 |
|
25 |
| CAGR, '01-'05 |
|
- |
Employees
| Number of employees |
|
4000 |
| '04 - '05 change |
|
25
|
| Revenue per employee |
|
402375 |
Misc.
| Mkt Cap as of 3/19/05 ($M) |
|
5750 |
| Cash/investments ($M) |
|
|
| Year inc. |
|
1995 |
| Fiscal year ends |
|
Dec |
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