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It's tax time again, and green bars are available
Tim Callan | 18 Dec 2012 | 0 comments

Regular readers of the SSL Blog will remember that online tax filing has emerged as a significant phishing target. Well, one forward-looking tax filing site, FileYourTaxes, has displayed the leadership to deploy Extended Validation SSL Certificates to give its visitors the tools to ensure they're not the victims of phishing attacks.

Here is a press release on FileYourTaxes and VeriSign EV SSL.

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Did you buy your Girl Scout cookies yet?
Tim Callan | 18 Dec 2012 | 0 comments

They dress in green, and now their Web site does too. That's right, the Girl Scouts are using Extended Validation SSL. In fact, when you go to make a donation to the Girl Scouts, the page contains this explanation:

You are visiting a Web page secured with Extended Validation (EV) SSL, the highest standard in the Internet security industry for Web site identity authentication.

And just in time for cookie season.

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Important resource for sites with Extended Validation SSL
Tim Callan | 18 Dec 2012 | 0 comments

If your sites uses Extended Validation SSL Certificates, VeriSign has published a great new resource for you to maximize the value of your decision. By adding EV to your site, you have the opportunity to increase your site visitors' confidence and therefore increase transactions. And you have the ability to foil the efforts of online criminals who are posing as you to exploit your good name and victimize your customers.

You took the right first step and put EV on your site. Now, explain to your customers directly what that means. You can put a written explanation on your site and into other customer communications like direct e-mail, direct mail, catalogs, invoices, and the like. This explanation can reinforce that the customer should look for the green address bar and your name. It can tell them that you'...

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Charities and EV SSL
Tim Callan | 18 Dec 2012 | 2 comments

Well, it's the time of the season when people give to charity, either because they're in the giving mood or - if you're a cynic - because they're thinking about their taxes. Either way, when you're giving your money to a good cause you'd like to be sure it's going to the real thing and not some scammer. I first became aware of these fake online scams during the Katrina/Rita disaster, but I'm sure they went on before and after.

Therefore it's not surprising to see EV SSL on charity sites like The United Way. EV is also deployed on Entango, a gateway used by online charities for collecting donations. You can see it here on the Toys for Tots donation site.

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Or maybe not
Tim Callan | 18 Dec 2012 | 0 comments

Okay, I got back from my vacation and installed Firefox Beta 2 today. Contrary to early reports, it does not appear to have any support for EV SSL included. I'll continue to look into it and let you know if my initial ten-minute squint at the product is wrong, but for now I think we need to await Beta 3.

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Firefox Beta 2 has support for Extended Validation
Tim Callan | 18 Dec 2012 | 0 comments

Firefox 3 beta release 2 is available, and it has support for Extended Validation SSL. As covered earier by the SSL Blog, Firefox has some other SSL improvements built in as well. I just downloaded and haven't installed it yet. I'll get it running and let you know what I see.

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A hat trick for online investing and Extended Validation
Tim Callan | 18 Dec 2012 | 0 comments

Regular readers of The SSL Blog know that Extended Validation SSL has seen strong early uptake in the online investing space, as evidenced by early deployments by Charles Schwab and E*TRADE. Now you can add Scottrade to the mix.

Why so much interest among online investing sites? It makes perfect sense to me. These sites have high value customers that they want to retain, and they manage a high value financial asset that the customer considers important to keep safe. Their customers are juicy identity theft targets since they tend to have money and good credit. And of course the presence of pump and dump scams make these sites into major phishing...

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Overstock.com Extended Validation SSL case study published
Tim Callan | 18 Dec 2012 | 0 comments

Regular readers of The SSL Blog will recall that some months ago I reported that Overstock.com saw an 8.6% reduction in abandonment using EV SSL Certificates. That research has now been written up in a full-fledged Extended Validation SSL case study.

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Another SSL haiku
Tim Callan | 18 Dec 2012 | 2 comments

Over the past year and a half, I've created close to 200 entries for The SSL Blog. None has garnered more feedback than my SSL haiku. I'm not sure what to conclude from that, but I do know a good thing when I see one. So to please the people, I am proud to debut a second SSL haiku. And what topic is more appropriate for the second ever SSL haiku than Extended Validation SSL?

EV SSL
Fights phishing powerfully
Green bar in IE

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Can political donations be phished?
Tim Callan | 18 Dec 2012 | 0 comments

In light of Ron Paul's massive fundraising day yesterday ($3.8 million raised online in a single day) one security blogger has brought up the question of phishing attacks against Web-based political fundraising. In his Threat Chaos blog Richard Stiennon asks the question,

But how many of those 35,000 donors checked the URL carefully before providing their credit card information as well as the name of their employer? Was it a phishing site they were visiting?

Richard is exactly right to be asking this question. As I have pointed out in the past, phishing attacks a great deal more than simply banks. Why are they not attacking online political parties? They probably are. And if they aren't, it's only a matter of time until they do.

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