Verisign

Freedom, the grey hat hacker that in the past period identified a lot of cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in some important websites, returns with other interesting finds. He discovered a number of 25 online shops from the United Kingdom containing XSS security holes.

The worrying thing is that all of the sites bare Verisign Trusted, Internet Shopping is Safe, Internet Delivery is Safe, Verified by Visa, and MasterCard SecureCode logos.

VeriSign, the company responsible for guiding most of the world's Internet users to the correct websites and once the largest encryption certificate issuing authority, has acknowledged that it was successfully hacked several times in 2010.

The admission was disclosed last fall in a VeriSign filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), but did not come to light until today when Reuters reported on its investigation of new SEC guidelines on such disclosures.