The company is also utilising gateway-assisted SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) to enable network service providers to improve mobile security by substituting wireless certificates for SSL certificates. The technologies on offer include mini digital...
The problem is that the service-orientated approach can expose organisations to new risks that current security solutions, from firewalls to SSL, cannot mitigate. RSA has announced a web services approach designed to enable organisations to...
Nearly a quarter of participants in the research didn't look at the address bar, status bar or security indicators on the phishing sites. Presented with a carefully spoofed Bank Of the West email which directed recipients to the phishing website...
IE 7, Microsoft's newest web browser, will show a green address bar only when displaying a website that has an "extended validation certificate", or EV SSL. This is a new type of security certificate being sold by the same companies that sell...
Davies recommended Extended Valuation SSL (EVSSL) to online retailers, which among other things causes the address bar to turn green if the site is bona fide and red if suspected to be a phishing site.
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...