VeriSign is adding malware scanning to its authentication services for Web site operators, the company announced on Monday.

The "VeriSign Trusted" check mark seal indicates to Web surfers that VeriSign has verified that the site represents the organization or company that it purports to be and that it is using encryption to protect communications between the site and its visitors. Now, existing and new VeriSign SSL customers will have their sites scanned daily to check for malware as ...

Dan Kaminsky, who discovered a serious flaw in the Domain Name System (DNS) last year, and Moxie Marlinspike gave presentations at the Black Hat security conference on Wednesday about how someone could acquire certificates for domains they don't own and thus trick people into visiting those i...