.Com .Net Registry VeriSign to spend $100M on infrastructure to combat attacks

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.Com .Net Registry VeriSign to spend $100M on infrastructure to combat attacks

02-08-2007, 10:02 AM,

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.Com .Net Registry VeriSign to spend $100M on infrastructure to combat attacks

Quote:VeriSign Inc., which manages the ``.com'' and ``.net'' domain names registry and ensures Internet users can reach those locations, said it will spend more than $100 million in a massive infrastructure upgrade to combat a new wave of computer attacks and manage a surge in online activity.

Industry experts said VeriSign's investment comes at a critical time for the computing world. They pointed to hackers' powerful attacks this week on the computers that manage global Internet traffic as evidence of the mounting threat from online criminals...

VeriSign, which operates two of the 13 so-called ``root'' servers that manage global Internet traffic, has an obligation to stay ahead of increasingly insidious and widespread Internet attacks...

full article: http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/silicon...648545.htm

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