More than 95 million Web sites – including 80 million using .com names and 15 million using .net names – will have access to new security mechanisms that prevent visitors from being unknowingly sent to phony sites engaged in phishing and pharming attacks.
After RIM abandoned its hostile bid for Certicom, VeriSign announced it plans to buy the security company.
VeriSign said it plans to buy Certicom, just three days after Research In Motion's hostile bid for the security company unraveled.
Wishes "white hat" researchers had notified VeriSign before public demo.
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 whether its other SSL certificate-generation services are at risk.
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