An estimated hundreds of thousands to millions of Network Solutions parked domains were actively serving malware to visitors due to an infected widget, according to researchers at a security firm.
Ivan Ristic, director of engineering at Qualys, provides an overview of his Black Hat 2010 talk, in which he presented a plethora of research findings into the state of SSL on the internet. As Ristic notes, websites are succeeding in some areas and falling short in others when it comes to deployment of SSL encryption.
The body that manages PCI guidelines has released a summary of expected changes, but merchants will not find any mention of emerging data security technologies.