VeriSign

eNom, Inc., the world’s largest ICANN accredited domain name wholesale registrar and the largest reseller of VeriSign SSL Certificates has announced the launch of the VeriSign Trust Seal to its expansive security product offering catalog. 

The Internet security solutions vendor Comodo posted this week a statement that says “it requested an independent third-party notify VeriSign of a security vulnerability affecting its customers Web sites, including a major financial institution.” Comodo found webpages used to process customer security certificates, a practice, it claims, puts some of the biggest names on the web at risk of serious targeted attacks.

This week Symantec and VeriSign confirmed the rumors that Symantec will acquire VeriSign’s security business. The acquisition is estimated at US$1.28 billion. The deal will allow VeriSign to focus on its more-profitable domain name business while Symantec will be able to broaden its growing portfolio of enterprise security products.

Leading financial services provider for members of the military community and their families, USAA, introduces its new quick logon and authentication security software.

USSA’s new solution will provide its mobile users with faster, more secure mobile logon access to their banking, insurance and investment accounts.

The quarterly index of mobile messaging statistics compiled by VeriSign's Messaging and Mobile Media division shows that the company delivered more than 224 billion. This indicates a 134 percent increase in the total messages delivered from 2007.

On top of that, VeriSign predicts 1.7 billion inter-carrier and a total of 3.5 billion SMS messages to be sent in North America on February 14.

Mindwave Research for CyberSource came up with a survey conducted in December 2008. This survey reported that online merchants lost $4 billion to fraud in 2008. The interesting tendency was also observed: while the rate of fraud was the same as it has been since 2006, but e-commerce is still growing. As a result the fraud rate caused more lost dollars.