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Date: Thu, 2 Feb 2012 22:42:05 -0500
From: Jeffrey Walton <noloader@...il.com>
To: Kyle Creyts <kyle.creyts@...il.com>
Cc: FunSec List <funsec@...uxbox.org>,
	Full Disclosure <full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk>
Subject: Re: Key Internet operator VeriSign hit by hackers
	[DNS]

On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 10:37 PM, Kyle Creyts <kyle.creyts@...il.com> wrote:
> This is at least a year and a half old. Please, don't republish "news"
> that should have never been reprinted. I'm not sure who would have
> allowed this tripe to be syndicated...
Actually, it was just released in Verisign's 10-Q
(https://investor.verisign.com/secfiling.cfm?filingID=1193125-11-285850&CIK=1014473).
Otherwise, without the SEC changes, it probably never would have seen
the light of day.

And this is alarming: "Ken Silva, who was VeriSign's chief technology
officer for three years until November 2010, said he had not learned
of the intrusion until contacted by Reuters. Given the time elapsed
since the attack and the vague language in the SEC filing, he said
VeriSign "probably can't draw an accurate assessment" of the damage."

Remember, this company runs a CA. I can't wait to see aggregate data
on CA breaches next year (its being collected now by EFF, et al).

Jeff

> On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 2:49 PM, Jeffrey Walton <noloader@...il.com> wrote:
>> http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/02/02/us-hacking-verisign-idUSTRE8110Z820120202
>> http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/46238729/ns/technology_and_science-security/
>>
>> (Reuters) - VeriSign Inc, the company in charge of delivering people
>> safely to more than half the world's websites, has been hacked
>> repeatedly by outsiders who stole undisclosed information from the
>> leading Internet infrastructure company.
>>
>> The previously unreported breaches occurred in 2010 at the Reston,
>> Virginia-based company, which is ultimately responsible for the
>> integrity of Web addresses ending in .com, .net and .gov.
>> ...
>>
>> The VeriSign attacks were revealed in a quarterly U.S. Securities and
>> Exchange Commission filing in October that followed new guidelines on
>> reporting security breaches to investors. It was the most striking
>> disclosure to emerge in a review by Reuters of more than 2,000
>> documents mentioning breach risks since the SEC guidance was
>> published.
>> ...

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