VeriSign
Major security sites hit by XSS bugs
Jun. 11, 2008
The Web sites of three of the security industry's best-known companies include security flaws that could be used to launch scams against customers, according to a new report.
Spear-phishing attacks have hooked 15,000, says VeriSign
Jun. 06, 2008
Two groups of criminals have stolen data from an estimated 15,000 victims over the past 15 months, using targeted "spear-phishing" e-mail attacks, according to researchers at VeriSign.
New open source DNS server released
May. 20, 2008
A group of experts has released an open source alternative to the BIND DNS server software that boasts higher performance and better security.
VeriSign: 33 million Internet domain names added in 2007
Mar. 06, 2008
The Internet grew by almost 33 million domain names last year, according to the fourth quarter 2007 Domain Name Industry released Wednesday by VeriSign, a digital infrastructure vendor that manages Internet domain names ...
With racy name, bug-finder gets no credit from Microsoft
Feb. 15, 2008
When a hacker going by the name Chujwamwdupe published attack code that exploited a recently patched bug in Microsoft Office 2003 earlier this week, it looked almost as if he were publishing the software out of spite.
Two-factor authentication: Hot technology for 2008
Jan. 14, 2008
We've known for a long time that requiring just a user name and password to get on the network or to access personal information on a Web site isn't the tightest security posture, but there weren't a lot of good ...
Watching the registrars
Jan. 11, 2008
Network Solutions has once again shown that it can't be trusted in its role as a domain name registrar.
Major security sites hit by XSS bugs
Jun. 11, 2008
The Web sites of three of the security industry's best-known companies include security flaws that could be used to launch scams against customers, according to a new report.
Spear-phishing attacks have hooked 15,000, says VeriSign
Jun. 06, 2008
Two groups of criminals have stolen data from an estimated 15,000 victims over the past 15 months, using targeted "spear-phishing" e-mail attacks, according to researchers at VeriSign.
Verizon defends redirecting typo traffic
Nov. 09, 2007
Verizon is standing by its program of redirecting typo traffic to their company's own search page, and claims that the redirects are valuable ways to help their users search the Internet.
Some vendor blogs could use polish
Oct. 05, 2007
Some vendor blogs could use some improvements, including those from CA, Cisco, Nortel and Verisign.
VeriSign CFO resigns, company restates earnings
Jul. 13, 2007
VeriSign CFO Dana Evan resigned Tuesday, and the company has restated earnings from 2002 to 2005, declaring an additional $160.3 million in stock-option compensation, it said Thursday.
Multivendor identity systems can work together, demo shows
Jun. 28, 2007
User-centric identity may focus on consumers, but corporate users are finding that CardSpace, OpenID and other technologies could solve federation issues and attack privacy, access, management and other concerns.
VeriSign adds managed wireless intrusion-prevention service
Jun. 04, 2007
VeriSign Monday plans to announce the expansion of its managed security services offerings to include support for wireless LAN intrusion prevention.
VeriSign's CEO Sclavos resigns
May. 30, 2007
Stratton D. Sclavos, CEO and board member of digital infrastructure vendor VeriSign Inc., resigned from the company Tuesday. No reason was given for the resignation.
VeriSign to use one-time passwords for bank cards
May. 02, 2007
VeriSign is looking to offer bank cards with an integrated one-time password generator, a slimmer way than key chains to implement two-factor authentication.
WatchGuard boosts its VPN gear
Apr. 17, 2007
WatchGuard Technologies is announcing software upgrades for its Core and Peak security devices that give them more uptime and make it simpler to provision VPNs.
Q&A: PayPal CISO outlines anti-fraud strategy
Feb. 14, 2007
PayPal has 133 million customers that use its Internet-based money-transfer service, which handled $37 billion in transactions last year. Michael Barrett, who is CISO at the eBay subsidiary, recently spoke with Network ...
VeriSign pumps up security to protect 'Net
Feb. 12, 2007
In the same week that the Internet's root servers came under sustained attack, VeriSign has announced an overhaul of the critical infrastructure on which some of these servers run.
RSA '07 - VeriSign announces $100 million investment in DNS
Feb. 08, 2007
VeriSign has announced a three-year, $100 million project to upgrade the servers and network infrastructure that power several critical components of the Internet's Domain Name System, including the .com and .net ...
UPDATE: Lessons learned from Internet root server attack
Feb. 08, 2007
There's some good news and some bad news for corporate network managers about the latest Internet root server attack.
How Schwab shuts out hackers
Jan. 29, 2007
It's a simple promise that Charles Schwab & Co. makes to its customers, but one with security ramifications that ripple throughout the company: "Schwab will cover 100% of any losses in any of your Schwab accounts due to ...
RSA - Microsoft to push new anti-phishing technology
Jan. 26, 2007
Microsoft and industry partners are pushing ahead with plans to make the Web a little safer with a new technology to combat phishing.
Symantec taps VeriSign, Accenture to bolster security
Oct. 10, 2006
Symantec Corp. is teaming with VeriSign Inc. and Accenture Ltd. as part of its Security 2.0 strategy for protecting consumers and enterprise users from the latest and greatest security threats, which Symantec says are ...
VeriSign service aims to curb ID theft
Feb. 10, 2006
VeriSign is rolling out a new beta service for financial institutions to help protect online bankers against the growing threat of identity theft, officials said Thursday.
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Overview
2005 NW200 rank: 51
2004 NW200 rank: 60
Revenue
| Total '05 revenue (in $M) |
|
1610 |
| '04-'05 revenue change |
|
38% |
| '01-'05 CAGR revenue |
|
13% |
Profit
| Profit or loss (in $M) |
|
407 |
| Change from '04 |
|
118 |
| As percentage of revenue 25 |
|
25 |
| CAGR, '01-'05 |
|
- |
Employees
| Number of employees |
|
4000 |
| '04 - '05 change |
|
25
|
| Revenue per employee |
|
402375 |
Misc.
| Mkt Cap as of 3/19/05 ($M) |
|
5750 |
| Cash/investments ($M) |
|
|
| Year inc. |
|
1995 |
| Fiscal year ends |
|
Dec |
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