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New Tim Callan video from Search Engine Strategies
Tim Callan | 18 Dec 2012 | 0 comments

At Search Engine Strategies in New York City last year I was interviewed by Patti Simone of WomenCentric and Marketing-Advantage.net. Patti posted the video, in which I explain VeriSign Seal-in-Search and show a heat map of real search results. It's a pretty crisp description of Seal-in-Search, and the pictures are helpful, but do try to ignore my right hand. Next time I promise I'll tie it behind my back.

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Netcraft reports 2% year over year increase for Symantec SSL
Tim Callan | 18 Dec 2012 | 0 comments

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. Symantec's share in the EV SSL and OV SSL markets is greater than 50%, and our EV share on its own is over 70%. The SSL brands covered under Symantec in the Netcraft report are VeriSign SSL, GeoTrust SSL, Thawte SSL, RapidSSL, and...

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US Senator calls for extension of full https coverage
Tim Callan | 18 Dec 2012 | 0 comments

The SSL blog has covered the progress in adoption of full https coverage on popular web sites such as gmail and Facebook. By extending SSL coverage for the entirety of a user's session, not just the login screen, the site can defeat new attacks such as Firesheep which will make it possible for man-in-the-middle attacks to harvest potentially damaging information from sessions that otherwise would appear to be safe for the average user. The latest installment in this story came yesterday when...

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New white paper on Extended Validation SSL from the Aberdeen Group
Tim Callan | 18 Dec 2012 | 0 comments

This new white paper from the Aberdeen Group studies adoption of Extended Validation SSL Certificates and how it varies between what Aberdeen calls Best-in-Class, Average, and Laggard IT organizations.

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Symantec up in a big way in the latest Netcraft numbers
Tim Callan | 18 Dec 2012 | 0 comments

The latest numbers are out from Netcraft, and the firm reports that Symantec grew organically by 9,382 certificates in additional to another 9,776 certificates that had previously been found but not categorized correctly as coming from Symantec. Interestingly, in this exact same month some CAs had a total reduction in certificate volume. Netcraft reports that between them Go Daddy and Comodo lost about 10,000 active certificates. Netcraft went on to report that EV SSL and organizationally validated certificates went up while domain validated certificates went down.

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BBC hit by drive-by-download malware exploit
Tim Callan | 18 Dec 2012 | 0 comments

Yesterday Websense announced in a blog post that it had discovered malware on the BBC's 6 Music and 1Xtra radio streaming sites. That's the second such episode in six months, as the BBC Radio 3 site had a similar incident in September of 2010. These incidents illustrate the importance of the drive-by-download as a threat. The large number of sites and pages available to your browser user creates a huge attack surface to exploit. Even an organization like the BBC, which certainly has resources and expertise in the area of web development, can be hit. Our approach to solving the problem is proactive scanning for web site malware distribution. An automated daily scan can identify these...

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Introducing the Tim Callan on Marketing and Technology blog
Tim Callan | 18 Dec 2012 | 0 comments

I'm very pleased to announce the launch and strong start of a new, personal blog of mine called Tim Callan on Marketing and Technology. Tim Callan's SSL Blog has been and continues to be a great experience for me. At the same time I've noticed that I'm rejecting an increasingly large number of interesting topics about which I'd like to write because they fall outside the highly targeted focus of my SSL blog. I've created the marketing and technology blog to alleviate that problem. I still intend to keep the blog focused, so it's unlikely you'll see me talking about last Sunday's football game or my favorite new movies unless those topics are directly illustrative of a salient point about marketing or technology. We're well underway, five posts in after less than a...

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PS3 jailbreak, stuxnet, and best practices in private key protection
Tim Callan | 18 Dec 2012 | 0 comments

About a month ago Sony made headlines at the Chaos Communication Congress in Berlin when a Playstation 3 jailbreak was revealed based on the use of stolen private keys for the PS3's code signing functionality. This incident illustrates the danger organizations face if their private keys are stolen. Similar incidents in the wild can result in the forced revocation of code signing certificates, which may cause existing deployments to stop working. To help organizations protect themselves from this possibility, Symantec has commissioned security writer/blogger Larry Seltzer to study ...

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Introducing the VeriSign Trust Assessment
Tim Callan | 18 Dec 2012 | 0 comments

We have a cool new online tool called the VeriSign Trust Assessment. The VeriSign Trust Assessment asks straightforward questions about the features and information on your web site that can help visitors establish trust in your site. After you fill it out, you'll receive a free assessment that shows you how your site's trust profile compares to others of the same type. Try it now.

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Third party checkout page optimization test includes VeriSign seal
Tim Callan | 18 Dec 2012 | 0 comments

Here's a cool writeup about how improving a web site checkout page with security indicators increased closed transactions by 15%. The writeup is from an A/B split and multivariate testing software vendor called Visual Website Optimizer, and those security indicators included the VeriSign seal.

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