You are probably familiar with the “HackerSafe” logo that adorns numerous websites. Now, the private company behind the logo, ScanAlert has been picked up by McAfee for $51 million. Hell, I would part with this site for $1 million. Ha!
From McAfee:
On October 30, McAfee, Inc. announced a definitive agreement to acquire ScanAlert, Inc., creators of the HACKER SAFE® trust mark, the world’s leading provider of ecommerce Web site security services.
ScanAlert, with it’s HACKER SAFE technology protects over 75,000 web sites. In addition to being used by the majority of the Internet Retailer Top 500 list, it is the only trust mark displayed within the search results of major comparison shopping sites including PriceGrabber, Yahoo!® Shopping and Pronto.com. As a leading provider of PCI compliance services, ScanAlert also delivers multilingual PCI validation to merchants and payment processors in over 70 countries. Tens of thousands of organizations – from small online businesses to FORTUNE 500 multinationals – rely on ScanAlert to protect, audit and certify the security of their networks and ecommerce infrastructure.
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