VeriSign News

VirnetX, a small Internet startup, has announced plans to explore a new partnership with VeriSign, a major domain and Web certificate provider, according to information filed this week with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

Online holiday shopping was stronger this year than in 2008, according to several reports this week.

On three days that typically constitute the busiest of the holiday season for online retailers -- "Cyber Monday" , "Green Monday" , and "Green Tuesday" , online shoppers saw the VeriSign seal approximately 789 million times, or roughly a 50 percent increase over the same days last year.

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Upbeat earnings reports helped lift technology stocks Friday, with Oracle Corp. signaling an uptick in corporate information technology spending and Research in Motion Ltd.

VeriSign, Inc. , the trusted provider of Internet infrastructure services for the networked world, today announced that its VeriSign Identity Protection Access for Mobile received the "Superstar" award in both the "Consumer Application" and "Enterprise Software" product categories in the eighth annual Mobile Star Awards program, hosted by mobile ...

TRUSTe, a provider of security services that certify that web sites protect confidential consumer data like credit card account numbers, has named former VeriSign Inc.

At the top of your screen on the Web site address, you should see https://. The "s" indicates that the Web site is secure.

Web site authentication business TRUSTe hired Chris Babel, a former VeriSign Inc.

Shares of RealNetworks Inc. soared Wednesday after investors learned that the digital entertainment company will not have to pay damages to VeriSign Inc.

Shares of RealNetworks Inc. soared Wednesday after investors learned that the digital entertainment company will not have to pay damages to VeriSign Inc.

RealNetworks Inc surged 14.8 % to $3.96 in premarket trade on Wednesday after the company disclosed in an SEC filing that an arbitrator had disposed of all claims in its pending arbitration with VeriSign Inc .

The long-standing legal spat between RealNetworks and VeriSign over a mobile messaging partnership the two companies brokered back in 2001 has been resolved - and not in the way that was originally expected.

The research found that consumers across Europe plan to spend less than a third of their total holiday shopping budget online this Christmas, with online identity theft and lack of trust in Web security cited as a concern.

Use secure online shopping sites - To ensure that your information is protected when shopping online, look for an unbroken key or padlock at the bottom of your web browser.

Web hosting provider Rackspace Hosting announced this week that it is offering the full line of Secure Sockets Layer certificates from security solutions provider VeriSign .

Secure Sockets Layer, identity authentication, and domain name services provider VeriSign has been chosen by Microsoft to provide cloud-based security and authentication for the Windows Azure platform.

This morning, Wedbush Morgan downgraded shares of VeriSign from Outperform to Neutral as the firm expects revenue and margin growth to slow.

VeriSign execs declare Project Titan a success as looming DNSSEC is set to increase the pressure on the Internet's DNS infrastructure.

Microsoft will use VeriSign Secure Sockets Layer Certificates, VeriSign Code Signing Certificates to safeguard cloud-based services and applications Nov 18, 2009 09:04 AM MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA -- -- November 17, 2009 -- VeriSign, Inc.