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Verisign 'Hacked Repeatedly' Says SEC Filings
Execs Claim They Weren't Informed Until Late 2011
by Karl Bode Thursday 02-Feb-2012 tags: business · security · content · networking · consumers
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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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drew
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Unknown whether or not SSL/DNS impacted?

Unacceptable.

Taking a year to tell senior management? Unacceptable.

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VeriSlime

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Yawn.

What an incredibly dull topic.

Slow news day Karl?
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Re: Yawn.

i have godaddy ssl... so neat?

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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.
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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.
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Re: Yawn.

Why did you tip the news then?

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Why did you tip the news then?

Oh dang. So I did.
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Re: Yawn.

owned.
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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?
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heads will roll.

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heads will roll.

Just not the ones that caused the breakdown, only the scapegoat underlings

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