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• VeriSign adds trust enhancements to its SSL products

  Internet infrastructure services specialist VeriSign is offering several new trust enhancements to customers of its secure sockets layer (SSL) products for no extra cost.

• Symantec's $1.28B VeriSign gambit draws mixed reviews

  Symantec's stunning decision to put $1.28 billion in cash on the table to buy most of the security services within VeriSign is a gambit that is drawing mixed reactions in the analyst community, but Symantec insists the VeriSign certificate and authentication services are key elements in what's shaping up to be one of the biggest self-transformations ever in the security industry.

• Symantec to buy VeriSign's authentication business

  Symantec will pay US$1.28 billion to acquire VeriSign's security business.

• Identity Theft: More than your credit card

  Identity theft is a crime whereby a malicious person gathers enough information to successfully impersonate another in order to gain some benefit. While most people may immediately think of identity theft as stolen credit card numbers or online banking details, identity theft encompasses a lot more than just this and has become integrated into a highly structured, organised crime.

• Updated: ICANN, Verisign place last puzzle pieces in DNSSEC saga

  The industry bodies responsible for the root servers that underpin the Internet have claimed success in implementing its DNS Security Extensions (DNSSEC) to the last clusters. The deployment is the final step before implementing the security required to prevent DNS cache poisoning attacks on Internet addresses.
  

• VeriSign rolls out new Web site verification service

  VeriSign is introducing a certification service that confirms whether a business is legitimate and that their Web site is free of malware.

• VeriSign bolsters security for .com, .net sites

  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.

• VeriSign buys Certicom after RIM withdraws bid

  VeriSign said it plans to buy Certicom, just three days after Research In Motion's hostile bid for the security company unraveled.

• Rogue SSL certificate exploit puts VeriSign on the spot

  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.