VeriSign said Wednesday it will purchase Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) certificate provider GeoTrust for about $125 million in cash, a deal that will give VeriSign access to GeoTrust’s extensive reseller ...

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. – December 13, 2010 – Symantec Corp. (Nasdaq: SYMC) today launched free trials of all of its VeriSign' Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) Certificates , including the industry’s ...

Altogether, the Symantec-VeriSign deal will give the security giant VeriSign's SSL Certificate Services, Public Key Infrastructure, VeriSign Trust Services and VeriSign Identity Protection ...

Comodo announced today that it requested an independent third-party to notify VeriSign of a security vulnerability affecting its customers’ web sites, including a major financial institution. VeriSign ...

MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA -- (Marketwire) -- November 17, 2009 -- VeriSign, Inc. (NASDAQ: VRSN), the trusted provider of Internet infrastructure for the networked world will provide cloud-based security and ...

I think it's because everyone has heard of Verisign. "Oh, my banking website uses Versign, so I'm good to go". Or maybe it's the same question as "Why does this ${namebrand} of jeans cost 3 times what ...

VeriSign moved to allay confusion on Thursday, after the expiration of some of its certificates that verified it as a certificate-issuing authority. Users have experienced problems when accessing ...

Who really made your software? The technology that protects consumers from spoof websites could be unleashed as the next weapon in the fight against malware. Security company Verisign is looking at ...

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 ...