VeriSign, the Internet company of choice for the Internet.
When the Internet is your business, you’re playing a dangerous game indeed. Even for a small-time user such as myself, hackers can cause quite a headache and give me significant heartburn when my site is knocked offline. For a company like Internet giant VeriSign, hackers are significantly more dangerous. In a recent 10-Q filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), VeriSign has admitted that it was the victim of numerous data breeches in 2010.
VeriSign’s 10-Q stated that the company “faced several successful attacks against its corporate network in which access was gained to information on a small portion of our computers and servers.” While not forthcoming with the scope of breeches in their security, the company has admitted that “given the nature of such attacks, we cannot assure that our remedial actions will be sufficient to thwart future attacks or prevent the future loss of information.”
For those that don’t know, VeriSign is basically the company that runs the Internet. Their Naming Services branch is the company that controls .com and .net addresses. When you type in a URL, VeriSign makes sure you get from your computer to the server upon which the site you want to go is stored. If the company’s DNS (domain name system) network could be compromised, that means millions of internet users accessing billions of pages could be put at risk. Hackers could redirect queries to malware-infected websites, intercept email exchanges, and have a whole lot of access to a whole lot of bad information.
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