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Windows flaw threatens PC services
News Microsoft admitted last night to a critical flaw in most versions of the company's Windows operating system that could allow malicious attackers to corrupt the digital certificates that PCs use to connect to network... [29 Aug 2002]
Morbid eBay bidders splash cash on corporate relics
News Last year, cancelled stock certificates for crippled dot-coms Webvan Drkoop.com sold for over $100 each on the auction site. A ballpoint pen bearing the Enron logo, regarded a collectable by bidders, was sold for $42,... [17 Jan 2002]
Egg's security leaves Mac users shell-shocked
News However, security experts said that while traffic between the Egg site and the user may have been encrypted, digital certificates are an integral part of securing a website that cannot be ignored. Egg told silicon.com... [04 Jan 2002]
Webvan shares soar past $400
News Webvan filed for bankruptcy earlier month, but dealers are now offering Webvan stock certificates on auction website ebay. Like postage stamps and trout flies, share certificates are widely collected. [26 Jul 2001]
nCipher teams up with HyperTrust
News The deal will see HyperTrust using nCipher's encryption hardware to store its customers' private keys as well as digital certificates. It allows HyperTrust to host customers' secure email, certificate... [13 Mar 2001]
£22m security deal puts certificates in the frame
News RSA believes the acquisition will bring in extra know-how for the development of secure communication systems on the internet. RSA estimates it will recoup its investment by the third quarter of this year. [05 Feb 2001]
SIM could spell the end for smartcards
News Operators can then begin to issue the certificates themselves. The mobile phone can function as a smartcard reader and the SIM, which contains the user's digital certificate, can act as an authentication... [24 Jan 2001]
PKI investigation labelled a waste of time and money
News Fiducia instead aims to map the legal and semantic differences between encrypted certificates, eventually creating a database of rules and procedures to allow users to accept different types of... [18 Jan 2001]
Finland's argument for a smartcard future
Comment The electronic ID card (the FINEID card) issued by the Finnish Population Register Centre (FPRC) - besides its traditional use as a photographic record and travel document within Europe - contains government-branded digital... [30 Aug 2000]
GEC buys into digital certificates
News Electronics giant, GEC, has acquired a 15 per cent stake in digital certificate software company, Xcert International, for £9.4m. GEC will retain options to acquire the majority of the shares in the future. [01 Sep 1999]
Raymond accuses Microsoft of Web standard sabotage
News Microsoft claims that Lotus' Domino standard is infringing on the development of digital certificates just because it doesn't support Microsoft's own certificate server," he said. The godfather of open... [14 Feb 1999]
UK chambers of commerce to offer digital IDs
News Businesses will be able to get certificates from their local BCC, to prove their identity to those they trade with over the Web, and to check the identity of other certificate holders. Digital... [01 Feb 1999]
US security conference backs PKI
News GTE launched its Cybertrust Accelerator Program for desktops which it claims makes it easy for companies to incorporate digital certificates to create secure email, encryption and Web access. Netscape joined in with a... [19 Jan 1999]
BT offers digital certificates
News The service is the result of BT's alliance with digital certificate developer, Verisign. BT has become the first organisation to offer a digital certification service in the UK with its Trustwise service. [22 Jul 1998]
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