This is a new type of security certificate being sold by the same companies that sell Secure Socket Layer, or SSL, certificates which allow traffic to be encrypted and are indicated by a yellow padlock in web browsers.
Presented with a carefully spoofed Bank Of the West email which directed recipients to the phishing website www.bankofthevvest.com (with a double 'v' instead of 'w'), complete with a padlock in the content, spoofed Verisign logo and certificate...
Other planned security features in Firefox 2 are support for a stronger type of digital certificate, a so-called high-assurance certificate. Although IE and Firefox, the two most-used web browsers, don't include anti-phishing features yet, there...
He added the caveat that the software doesn't operate with early browsers and operating systems, so wasn't a "silver bullet". Davies recommended Extended Valuation SSL (EVSSL) to online retailers, which among other things causes the address bar to...
Cranor's report could be positive news for a company such as VeriSign, which in December launched a tool with Microsoft that changes the colour of the browser address bar when it's displaying a website that has an "extended validation certificate...
Our [products] are designed to give commercial customers the assurance that platforms are designed with their business in mind to help get more from their computing infrastructure, longer. All the processors offer "up-to-24-month" stability on the...
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