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SAN FRANCISCO - RSA CONFERENCE 2012 - Qualys has a history of making major product announcements at the RSA Conference in San Francisco each year, and this year is no exception. The company, based just miles away in Redwood Shores, today introduced significant enhancements to its flagship QualysGuard suite of applications for security and compliance.The company's cloud-based QualysGuard service adds the following new features and enhancements as announced today at the RSA Conference:

Botnet takedowns are good for the industry, but our local controls are really the only security measures that we can rely on to protect our users, networks and data.

Cybercriminals put significant effort into building their data stealing and spam pushing botnets, so when things come crashing down when authorities seize control of a botnet’s command and control server, you can imagine how frustrating it is for the fraudsters. Never mind the fact there is a good chance they’d be facing jail time as well. In the past year, we’ve seen several successful botnet takedowns, and authorities and security vendors are continuing the assault against these international cybercime empires.

Enterprise key and certificate management firm Venafi, in conjunction with Osterman Research, recently released the results of a study, which showed that most organizations fail to understand the risks associated with improper implementation and management of SSL deployments.The sample size for the study, 174 IT / InfoSec professionals, is rather small, but the data collected by Venafi is relevant nevertheless.

Two weeks ago, Mac security researchers at Intego discovered a variant of the Flashback Trojan using clever methods to infect systems. On Friday, Intego reported that a new variant of Flashback is targeting passwords and as a byproduct of infection, Flashback is crashing several notable applications.

The world has changed. The predicted consolidation of all things electronic (i.e., telephony, games, Internet, email, entertainment, social, calendars, etc.) fits in my jacket pocket and has become an indispensible part of my life. I seamlessly work from my office, my home, my car and around the world as though there are no walls.

The Obama administration today pulled the covers off of a consumer-privacy strategy aimed at helping protect users online.

Trustwave, a provider of IT security and compliance solutions, today announced additions to its managed security services portfolio, including new managed Web Application Firewall and Information and Event Management (SIEM) solutions.The offerings add to the company’s existing managed security services offerings, including managed encryption, network access control, two-factor authentication and unified threat management.

It hasn’t been the greatest couple of weeks for the Internet porn industry.

In the Cybersecurity Battle, the Side with Information Superiority Wins.Whether we’re engaging foes in warfare or protecting our computer networks, having information superiority is essential to success. Defined in the US Army Vision 2010 doctrine as “the capability to collect, process, and disseminate an uninterrupted flow of information while exploiting or denying an adversary’s ability to do the same,” information superiority is identified as “the key enabler in 21st century operations”.

The security of device-independent quantum key distribution (QKD) has been deemed ineffective by a team of Canadian researchers, and at least one commercial product already in use for telecommunications is directly affected.

LogLogic, a provider of SIEM and log management solutions, today released the findings of a study conducted in conjunction with research firm Echelon One on the topics of cloud and “Big Data”. Key in their discoveries is that many seasoned IT professionals have many misconceptions about big data and what it actually is.