Verisign 'Hacked Repeatedly' Says SEC Filings Execs Claim They Weren't Informed Until Late 2011 Tipped by Noah Vail 
According to SEC filings, Verisign was hacked repeatedly throughout 2010, losing "undisclosed information" throughout. The filings come as Verisign adheres to new rules requiring the disclosure of serious security breaches to investors. The filings fail to specify specifically when the breaches occurred, but claim security staff responded to the attack soon afterward but failed to alert top management until September 2011. Verisign says they "do not believe these attacks breached the servers that support our Domain Name System network." It's also unclear if the Secure Sockets Layer process, a part of Verisign's business offloaded to Symantec in the summer of 2010, was corrupted. Update: Symantec sent us this statement: Symantec takes the security and proper functionality of its solutions very seriously. The Trust Services (SSL), User Authentication (VIP, PKI, FDS) and other production systems acquired by Symantec were not compromised by the corporate network security breach mentioned in the VeriSign, Inc. quarterly filing.
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 drewAutomaticPremium join:2002-07-10 Port Orchard, WA kudos:6 | Unknown whether or not SSL/DNS impacted?
Unacceptable.
Taking a year to tell senior management? Unacceptable. | |
|  morboComplete Your Transaction join:2002-01-22 00000 | VeriSlime VeriSlime lives up to their name. | |
|  Noah VailSon made my AvatarPremium join:2004-12-10 Lorton, VA kudos:1 | Yawn. What an incredibly dull topic.
Slow news day Karl? | |
|  |  | | Re: Yawn. i have godaddy ssl... so neat? | |
|  |  Romney2012Defeat Obama 2012-Chg we can believe inPremium join:2002-03-03 USA kudos:4 | said by Noah Vail:What an incredibly dull topic.
Slow news day Karl? You find it dull that the very foundations of Internet security, SSL & DNS security, may have been compromised. Maybe you never do any online banking or make purchases at web sites. But millions of people do every single day. That this infrastructure may becoming ever more unreliable is not dull to me. -- The nine most terrifying words in the English language are, I'm from the government and I'm here to help. »www.politico.com/2012-election/
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|  |  |  Noah VailSon made my AvatarPremium join:2004-12-10 Lorton, VA kudos:1 Reviews:
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| Re: Yawn. said by Romney2012:You find it dull that the very foundations of Internet security, SSL & DNS security, may have been compromised. Like I care. -- Adopting other people's animosity is The New Stupid. | |
|  |  |  |  openbox9 join:2004-01-26 Alexandria, VA kudos:2 | Re: Yawn. Why did you tip the news then? | |
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| Re: Yawn. said by openbox9:Why did you tip the news then? Oh dang. So I did. -- Adopting other people's animosity is The New Stupid. | |
|  |  |  |  |  |  ArchivisYour DaddyPremium join:2001-11-26 Earth kudos:17 | Re: Yawn. owned. | |
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 openbox9 join:2004-01-26 Alexandria, VA kudos:2 | Sounds Familiar said by Symantec :Symantec takes the security and proper functionality of its solutions very seriously. The Trust Services (SSL), User Authentication (VIP, PKI, FDS) and other production systems acquired by Symantec were not compromised by the corporate network security breach mentioned in the VeriSign, Inc. quarterly filing. Didn't Symantec kind of say the same thing about its PCAnywhere product and then turned around and recommended customers update their software? | |
|  |  | | Re: Sounds Familiar heads will roll. | |
|  |  |  dib22 join:2002-01-27 Kansas City, MO kudos:2 | Re: Sounds Familiar Just not the ones that caused the breakdown, only the scapegoat underlings  | |
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