Latest news
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HTTPS for Yahoo! Mail is now available
09.01.2013
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 Layer (SSL) cryptographic protocol, the Electronic Frontier Foundation reports.
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Researcher releases a slew of MySQL and SSH exploits
03.12.2012
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 exploits for a number of bugs in MySQL and SSH servers.
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Entrust solves SSL compliance challenges
29.11.2012
Finding, managing and analyzing SSL and other digital certificates can be time-consuming, complex and expensive.
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Popular Android apps leaking passwords due to poor SSL
22.10.2012
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 Play and tested have poorly implemented SSL/TLS protocols that can allow attackers to collect information that the apps send and receive.
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BEAST developers come up with new SSL/TLS attack
07.09.2012
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 a flaw in a feature in all versions of TLS.
Spotlight

Is it time to professionalize information security?
Posted on 23 May 2013. | The issue of whether or not information security professionals should be licensed to practice has already been the topic of many a passionate debate.

Review: Logging and Log Management
Posted on 22 May 2013. | Every security practitioner should be aware of the overwhelming advantages of logging and perusing logs for discovering system intrusions. But logging and log management comes with its own set of difficulties.

Experts highlight top data breach vulnerabilities
Posted on 22 May 2013. | Hidden vulnerabilities lie in everyday activities that can expose personal information and lead to data breach, including buying gas with a credit card or wearing a pacemaker.

A closer look at Mega cloud storage
Posted on 21 May 2013. | Once a novelty, nowadays many cloud storage services are fighting for their piece of the market in the virtual world. Mega offers 50GB of free space with great pricing on Pro accounts.

The CSO perspective on healthcare security and compliance
Posted on 20 May 2013. | Randall Gamby is the CSO of the Medicaid Information Service Center of New York. In this interview he discusses healthcare security and compliance challenges and offers a variety of tips.
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