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VeriSign Admits Being Hacked Multiple Times in 2010
Internet infrastructure company VeriSign says hackers made off with unspecified information in 2010. The company didn't report the breach until 2011
If you’re an Internet company, when do you tell your users you were hacked? Internet infrastructure company VeriSign reported in a quarterly SEC filing that hackers breached its security and made off with unspecified information multiple times-- back in 2010.
The biggest concern is that hackers could have compromised the domain name system, or DNS. The DNS directs Internet traffic to the correct IP addresses -- so when you enter Google.com, you go to Google’s website, and not Amazon’s or Facebook’s.
Verisign maintains two of thirteen DNS servers for .com and .net web domains -- more than 100 million addresses. Wired explains -- a hacker could reroute the DNS, and users wouldn’t know a thing.
If you’re an Internet company, when do you tell your users you were hacked? Internet infrastructure company VeriSign reported in a quarterly SEC filing that hackers breached its security and made off with unspecified information multiple times-- back in 2010.
The biggest concern is that hackers could have compromised the domain name system, or DNS. The DNS directs Internet traffic to the correct IP addresses -- so when you enter Google.com, you go to Google’s website, and not Amazon’s or Facebook’s.
Verisign maintains two of thirteen DNS servers for .com and .net web domains -- more than 100 million addresses. Wired explains -- a hacker could reroute the DNS, and users wouldn’t know a thing.
