VeriSign said Wednesday it will purchase Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) certificate provider GeoTrust for about $125 million in cash, a deal that will give VeriSign access to GeoTrust’s extensive reseller ...

Following the success of researchers last week in creating a false SSL certificate based on VeriSign’s RapidSSL brand, the company is scrambling to explain how it happened, how it’s preventing it from ...

Comodo announced today that it requested an independent third-party to notify VeriSign of a security vulnerability affecting its customers’ web sites, including a major financial institution. VeriSign ...

I think it's because everyone has heard of Verisign. "Oh, my banking website uses Versign, so I'm good to go". Or maybe it's the same question as "Why does this ${namebrand} of jeans cost 3 times what ...

Altogether, the Symantec-VeriSign deal will give the security giant VeriSign's SSL Certificate Services, Public Key Infrastructure, VeriSign Trust Services and VeriSign Identity Protection ...

Cybertrust today launched its Extended Validation SSL certificate offering, joining VeriSign and other certificate authorities in supporting the new browser security standard. But some experts are ...