Posts Tagged ‘SSL’

SSL governance and implementation across the Internet

Thursday, May 17th, 2012
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 across the Internet as its fi...

Oracle makes SSL use in database clusters free

Wednesday, May 2nd, 2012
Oracle has acknowledge the problem with the disclosure of an unfixed flaw in its currently available databases and is offering free SSL/TLS encryption to cluster users and advice for working around the problem


SSL Pulse starts beating

Tuesday, May 1st, 2012
The Trustworthy Internet Movement is now monitoring the state of SSL on the internet with a "real time" dashboard displaying the "SSL Pulse"


Global dashboard for monitoring the quality of SSL support

Tuesday, May 1st, 2012
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 SSL and to deploy it wel...

Google’s False Start gets a real stop

Monday, April 30th, 2012
Google's attempt to speed up SSL connections has been stopped, at least for HTTP/HTTPS use, as it was difficult to overcome "False Start intolerance" in network equipment and web sites


Survey Finds Secure Sites Not So Secure

Friday, April 27th, 2012

A new project that was setup to monitor the quality and strength of the SSL implementations on top sites across the Internet found that 75 percent of them are vulnerable to the BEAST SSL attack and that just 10 percent of the sites surveyed should be considered secure.

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World renowned experts to examine SSL governance

Thursday, April 26th, 2012
Just two months from its inauguration date at the RSA Conference in San Francisco on February 29, the Trustworthy Internet Movement (TIM) announced today that it has chosen SSL governance and implemen...

Ruby 1.9.3 update fixes RubyGems security problem

Friday, April 20th, 2012
Version 1.9.3-p194 of the open source programming language fixes a number of bugs and addresses a security hole in RubyGems that caused SSL server verification to fail for remote repositories


Ruby 1.9.3 update fixes RubyGems security problem – Update

Friday, April 20th, 2012
Version 1.9.3-p194 of the open source programming language fixes a number of bugs and addresses a security hole in RubyGems that caused SSL server verification to fail for remote repositories

SSL/TLS deployment best practices

Monday, April 16th, 2012
SSL/TLS is a deceptively simple technology. It is easy to deploy, and it just works… except that it does not, really. The first part is true - SSL is easy to deploy - but it turns out that it is not e...