Businesses will be able to get certificates from their local BCC, to prove their identity to those they trade with over the Web, and to check the identity of other certificate holders. Digital certificates aim to increase business-to-business...
WS-Trust is a proposed standard method for establishing secure communications between companies, including interactions that involve third-party certification authorities. IBM and Microsoft co-authored the specifications with input from a number of...
Clicking on the VeriSign seal brings up an apparently valid certificate registered to the non-existent company and produced by VeriSign's own computers. The site, unlockedPhones-UK.com, has been discovered to be displaying fake security...
The audits for the programme are carried out by certification bodies who issue thousands of certificates. But as these can be vulnerable to fraud (by people changing the information on the form) certification bodies are being encouraged to adopt...
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.
It also is designed to assure surfers when they visit sites that are safe but which Firefox warns about because the sites are not paying a third-party Certificate Authority, such as VeriSign, to authenticate the sites and instead are using "self...