Internet's 1 Million Most-Visited Domains Rely on GeoTrust SSL More Than Any Other Certificate Authority

MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA, Jul 06, 2010 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) -- GeoTrust, Inc., a leading certificate authority, today announced that its Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) Certificates secure more of the most-visited web sites on the Internet than any other certificate authority. The results, which were determined using Netcraft data against the Alexa Top 1 Million Domains list, highlight the popularity of GeoTrust over low-cost competitors on popular web sites. To obtain an accurate picture of SSL Certificates usage on the most heavily-visited web sites, VeriSign, parent company of GeoTrust, commissioned Catapult Data Services to cross reference the Alexa Top 1 Million against Netcraft's June 2010 SSL Survey. The Netcraft SSL survey is a tally of all publicly-facing SSL certificates on the Internet,...

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Most SSL Sites Poorly Configured

A variety of news stories issuing from the Black Hat security conference this week in Las Vegas describe presentations in which researchers highlight holes in web browser security, including widespread problems with the implementation of SSL Certificates. According to a report appearing Thursday on the Forbes blogs, security researchers Robert Hansen and Josh Sokol presented a list of 24 reasons, Wednesday, why users shouldn’t trust their browser’s padlock security indicator, the image typically associated with sites secured by SSL certificates. The presentation reportedly divided threats into mostly low- and medium-level threats, with two that Hansen considered critical. All of those threats, said the presenters, require the hacker to deploy a man-in-the-middle program on the user’s...

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