Re: Verisign deep-hacked. For months.

2012-02-05 Thread steve pirk [egrep]
On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 16:42, Zaid Ali wrote: > That part is ambiguous at the moment since Verisign has not released > details. Symantec has bought the SSL part of the business and claim that > the SSL acquired network is not compromised. Sounds like lots of > assumptions being drawn. > > Zaid >

Re: Verisign deep-hacked. For months.

2012-02-03 Thread Rubens Kuhl
On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 10:34 PM, Jeff Wheeler wrote: > On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 7:26 PM, Suresh Ramasubramanian > wrote: >> So what part of VRSN got broken into?  They do a lot more than just DNS. > > Indeed, VeriSign owns Illuminet, who are mission-critical for POTS. > Illuminet is also in the bus

Re: Verisign deep-hacked. For months.

2012-02-03 Thread Jay Ashworth
- Original Message - > From: "Jeff Wheeler" > On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 7:26 PM, Suresh Ramasubramanian > wrote: > > So what part of VRSN got broken into? They do a lot more than just > > DNS. > > Indeed, VeriSign owns Illuminet, who are mission-critical for POTS. > Illuminet is also in th

Re: Verisign deep-hacked. For months.

2012-02-02 Thread Randy Bush
At 3 Feb 2012 01:56:38 -, John Levine wrote: > World notices that Verisign said three months ago that they had a > security breach two years ago i thought news was only supposed to be at eleven

Re: Verisign deep-hacked. For months.

2012-02-02 Thread John Levine
See my new blog entry: World notices that Verisign said three months ago that they had a security breach two years ago http://jl.ly/2012/02/02#vrsnbreach R's, John

Re: Verisign deep-hacked. For months.

2012-02-02 Thread Zaid Ali
That part is ambiguous at the moment since Verisign has not released details. Symantec has bought the SSL part of the business and claim that the SSL acquired network is not compromised. Sounds like lots of assumptions being drawn. Zaid On 2/2/12 4:26 PM, "Suresh Ramasubramanian" wrote: >So wha

Re: Verisign deep-hacked. For months.

2012-02-02 Thread Jeff Wheeler
On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 7:26 PM, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote: > So what part of VRSN got broken into?  They do a lot more than just DNS. Indeed, VeriSign owns Illuminet, who are mission-critical for POTS. Illuminet is also in the business of recording telephone calls, SMS messages, etc. for law e

Re: Verisign deep-hacked. For months.

2012-02-02 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
So what part of VRSN got broken into? They do a lot more than just DNS. On Fri, Feb 3, 2012 at 5:00 AM, Zaid Ali wrote: > > VeriSign said its executives "do not believe these attacks breached the > servers that support our Domain Name System network," > > "Oh my God," said Stewart Baker, former

Re: Verisign deep-hacked. For months.

2012-02-02 Thread Zaid Ali
I love this VeriSign said its executives "do not believe these attacks breached the servers that support our Domain Name System network," "Oh my God," said Stewart Baker, former assistant secretary of the Department of Homeland Security and before that the top lawyer at the National Security Agen

Verisign deep-hacked. For months.

2012-02-02 Thread Jay Ashworth
Oh, my. http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Key-Internet-operator-rb-2857339070.html Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth Baylink j...@baylink.com Designer The Things I Think RFC 2100 Ashworth & Associates http://baylink