Friday, 3 February 2012

VeriSign Hacked: What We Don't Know Might Hurt Us

VeriSign – the company behind the root DNS servers that provide the foundation for the Web, and formerly the largest encryption certificate authority – has revealed that it was repeatedly hacked in 2010. Details are sparse thus far, but the revelation calls into question the security of the Internet itself.

Let’s start with what (little) we know. The disclosure did not happen as a result of VeriSign discovering the breach and taking responsible, proactive action to alert customers and

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