Check Point expanded its UTM-1 Total Security appliance line. The appliances provide a security solution that combines firewall, virtual private network (VPN), intrusion prevention, SSL VPN, antivirus…
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Working closely with the German hosting company ? manitu, heise is making available with immediate effect a realtime DNS-based blacklist service for identifying weak SSL keys. The provider already runs the Realtime Blacklist for the iX spam filter NiX Spam, which enables mail servers to identify and filter spam.The principle of a DNS realtime blacklist [...]

A bit of catch up… I’ve added the following notes to the wiki:

Generating SSL certificates for Dovecot
A fix for Asterisk’s music on hold starting and stopping on its own

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Learn how to get the strongest SSL encryption and increase customer confidence with Extended Validation (EV) SSL Certificates, which trigger the green address bar in high security browsers, allowing y…
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Encryption and file-sharing technology have a long history together. Usenet servers, LimeWire, uTorrent, and many other applications and protocols have taken advantage of encryption technology to help give the end user an additional layer of security. In response to Sweden’s new wiretapping law, The Pirate Bay’s Peter Sunde has announced the tracker?s intention to offer [...]

Diigo Toolbar - Global XSS and Information Leakage in SSL URLs
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Firefox 3 will be released today. Many of us in the lab were not aware that Mozilla is pushing for a Guiness World Record. Mozilla is aiming for a record number of downloads within the first 24 hours.
Kudos to Jay, from our Vulnerability Team, for pointing it out to us.

There’s already a large number of [...]

An SSL Certificate is a good way to look professional online and ensure your customers that your website is safe to do business on. It is not always enough to be professional - appearance can be just as important in winning a client. And with the growth of internet technology, this doesnt just apply to [...]

A virtual private network (VPN) is a computer based network in which the links between nodes are carried by open connections, SSL connections or virtual circuits in some larger network instead of by physical wires. The link-layer connections of the virtual network are said to be tunneled through the larger network when this is the [...]

As with Firefox 3 release candidate 1 the yellow address bar is gone - the address bar remains white as with regular pages, there is no padlock to see nor any other visual indicator.
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(Source: VeriSign) Legitimize trust in e-business with new Extended Validation SSL Certificates. Extended Validation SSL triggers a green address bar in Microsoft™ IE7, which helps prove site identity. Get the green bar and higher sales by reading the technical white paper.

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(Source: Verisign) Be sure that your online business is ready for safe transacting. Find out what consumers are looking to be safe online.

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