Tim Callan's blog

Hello readers. Yesterday was my last day as a Symantec employee, and this entry is my last on Tim Callan's SSL Blog. After nearly seven years at VeriSign/Symantec I am moving on.

In the wake of Ashton Kuchur's recent Twitter account takeover and calls for consistent SSL protection on social media sites, Twitter is no

If you're attending Search Engine Strategies next week in New York City, make sure you come by and see our presentation on how trust indicators drive traffic from search results and maximize click-through rates on landing pages. Trust the link. Trust the Website. Trust the Transaction.

For the past seven years or so we've seen a common criminal practice of creating just-in-time phishing scams around breaking news or other current events.

Blogger Roman Poroshyn recently posted commentary pointing out that code signing certificates can be stolen (as illustrated by the Stu

Less than a week after New York Senator Charles Schumer called out Twitter by name for incomplete SSL implementation (along with Yahoo and Amazon) the popular social networking site finds itself in the SSL media crosshairs once<

Whole buncha headlines yesterday as Google pulled the plug on more than fifty Android apps for containing malware.

The Economist has a cogent and thorough description of the need for always-on SSL and Senator Schumer's recent public exhortion to leading social and e-commerce sites to put their entire user experiences under<

At Search Engine Strategies in New York City last year I was interviewed by Patti Simone of WomenCentric and Marketing-Advantage.net.

The newest Netcraft report is in, and we've seen that the Symantec SSL offerings have increased in share by 2% from a year previously. Symantec is the only major CA to increase in share during the last year and has one and a half times the share of the nearest competitor.