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As 2013 comes to a close, it’s time to reflect on a year of change for password security and the implications for the year ahead. Large scale security breaches this year …

Last month, Microsoft published two separate notices of 0-day vulnerabilities that were being used in the wild to attack Microsoft products. The first flaw is in a code …

Through our Qualys BrowserCheck online tool we have collected data from over 1.4 million user computer scans and their respective browsers. From this research, we have found …

Microsoft has released security advisory KB2896666 informing of a vulnerability (CVE-2013-3906) in the TIFF graphics format that is seeing limited attacks in the Middle East …

If your job has something to do with security, web development, or system administration, you can’t avoid having to deal with OpenSSL on at least some level. This book …

October is turning out to be a busy month for patches. Next week is Patch Tuesday, and both Adobe and Microsoft have published their advance notices, with one and eight …

Qualys released a new version of Qualys BrowserCheck, the free service that helps people keep their browsers and plug-ins up-to-date to protect against harmful online content …

Yesterday I changed the SSL Labs rating criteria to stop penalizing sites that do not implement server-side mitigations for the BEAST attack. That means that we now consider …

When Juliano and Thai disclosed the CRIME attack last year, it was clear that the same attack technique could be applied to any other compressed data, and compressed response …

Qualys will release the beta of its new cloud WAF solution as an Amazon Machine Image (AMI) and as a VMware virtual image for on-premise deployments starting August 1. …

I am not a paranoid person and most industry conferences I go to don’t generate any worries about security. You go and participate, but otherwise operate normally, …

With revelations about mass surveillance in the news everywhere, an obscure feature of SSL/TLS called forward secrecy has suddenly become very interesting. So what is it, and …