VeriSign, the company behind the root DNS servers that provide the foundation for the Web, has revealed that it was repeatedly hacked in 2010. Details are sparse thus far, but the revelation calls into question the security of the Internet itself. IT staff allegedly discovered the compromise in 2010, but hid the incident from upper management until sometime in 2011. The delay in reporting the attacks put its customers at risk, and yet the company still tried to sneak the information covertly in an SEC filing.”]
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