Symantec unveils new SSL algorithms and web security products
Symantec unveiled new updates to its Website Security Solutions portfolio with capabilities to meet the increasing security and performance needs for connected businesses. The …
GitHub MitM attack orchestrated by Chinese censors?
China-based users and visitors of GitHub, the globally popular online source code repository, have been targeted with an man-in-the-middle attack late last Friday, reports …
HTTPS for Yahoo! Mail is now available
Yahoo has finally decided to offer to the users of its popular Yahoo! Mail service the option of encrypting their entire webmail session by switching on the Secure Sockets …
Researcher releases a slew of MySQL and SSH exploits
Security professional Nikolaos Rangos, who is better known by his online handle Kingcope, has flooded the Full Disclosure mailing list over the weekend with information and …
Entrust solves SSL compliance challenges
Finding, managing and analyzing SSL and other digital certificates can be time-consuming, complex and expensive. To help automate and simplify these tasks, Entrust introduces …
Popular Android apps leaking passwords due to poor SSL
A group of researchers from two German universities claim that eight percent of the 13,500 popular, free-of-charge, legitimate Android Android apps they downloaded from Google …
BEAST developers come up with new SSL/TLS attack
From the security researchers who created and demonstrated the BEAST (Browser Exploit Against SSL/TLS) tool for breaking SSL/TLS encryption comes another attack that exploits …
Monitoring the quality of SSL support
Ivan Ristic, Director of Engineering at Qualys, talks about SSL Pulse – a continuous and global dashboard for monitoring the quality of SSL support across the top one …
New version of NGINX web server to support OCSP-stapling
GlobalSign, DigiCert, Comodo, and NGINX announced a joint effort and a sponsored development contract, to enhance the NGINX open source web server to support OCSP-stapling. …
Birdstep unveils SafeMove SSL VPN
Birdstep launched its SafeMove Clientless SSL VPN, offering easy, secure and efficient remote access to the enterprise network. While Birdstep’s full SafeMove Mobile VPN …
SSL governance and implementation across the Internet
Philippe Courtot, founder of the Trustworthy Internet Movement (TIM), and chairman and CEO of Qualys, talks about how the TIM has chosen SSL governance and implementation …
Global dashboard for monitoring the quality of SSL support
Last week we announced SSL Pulse, a continuously updated dashboard that is designed to show the state of the SSL ecosystem at a glance. While it is possible today to deploy …
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