NIST removes Dual EC DRBG from SP 800-90A

The maligned Dual EC DRBG random number generator at the core of a $10 million secret contract between RSA Security and the National Security Agency has been removed from NIST’s draft guidance on random number generators. The National Institute for Standards and Technology said it will request...

800,000 Customers' detail stolen in Data Breach at French Telecom 'Orange'

One of the world’s largest mobile operator 'Orange' has been hit by data breach. The French multinational telecommunication company announced recently, it was targeted by unknown hackers on 16th January 2014, who allegedly gained access to the accounts of up to 800,000 customers of Orange website...

CVE-2007-6755

The NIST SP 800-90A default statement of the Dual Elliptic Curve Deterministic Random Bit Generation DualECDRBG algorithm contains point Q constants with a possible relationship to certain "skeleton key" values, which might allow context-dependent attackers to defeat cryptographic protection...

CVE-2007-6755

The NIST SP 800-90A default statement of the Dual Elliptic Curve Deterministic Random Bit Generation DualECDRBG algorithm contains point Q constants with a possible relationship to certain "skeleton key" values, which might allow context-dependent attackers to defeat cryptographic protection...

Design/Logic Flaw

The NIST SP 800-90A default statement of the Dual Elliptic Curve Deterministic Random Bit Generation DualECDRBG algorithm contains point Q constants with a possible relationship to certain "skeleton key" values, which might allow context-dependent attackers to defeat cryptographic protection...

CVE-2007-6755

CVE-2007-6755 is the Dual_EC_DRBG-related vulnerability referenced in the initial description. The connected documents provide a concrete technical detail: in a Debian vulnerability listing, CVE-2007-6755 is associated with libuuid1 (libuuid1-2.36.1-8+deb11u1.amd64

CVE-2007-6755

The NIST SP 800-90A default statement of the Dual Elliptic Curve Deterministic Random Bit Generation DualECDRBG algorithm contains point Q constants with a possible relationship to certain "skeleton key" values, which might allow context-dependent attackers to defeat cryptographic protection...

CVE-2007-6755

The NIST SP 800-90A default statement of the Dual Elliptic Curve Deterministic Random Bit Generation DualECDRBG algorithm contains point Q constants with a possible relationship to certain "skeleton key" values, which might allow context-dependent attackers to defeat cryptographic protection...

UK Cryptographers Call For Publication of Deliberately Weakened Protocols, Products

A group of cryptographers in the UK has published a letter that calls on authorities in that country and the United States to conduct an investigation to determine which security products, protocols and standards have been deliberately weakened by the countries’ intelligence services. The letter,...

PokerAgent botnet stole over 16,000 Facebook credentials

PokerAgent botnet was discovered in 2012 by ESET Security Research Lab, which is a Trojan horse designed to harvest Facebook log-on credentials, also collecting information on credit card details linked to the Facebook account and Zynga Poker player stats. According to latest report, the botnet i...

CVE-2013-0929

Format string vulnerability in the vsnsprintf function in rrobotd.exe in the Device Manager in EMC AlphaStor 4.0 before build 800 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via format string specifiers in a command...

Command injection

The NetWorker command processor in rrobotd.exe in the Device Manager in EMC AlphaStor 4.0 before build 800 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via a DCP "run command" operation...

Facebook Helps FBI to shuts down Butterfly botnet theft $850 millions

The U.S. Department of Justice said on Tuesday that they’ve arrested 10 suspects from from Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Macedonia, New Zealand, Peru, the United Kingdom, and the United States involved in a global botnet operation that infected more than 11 million systems. The ring is said to...

Padding Oracle Crypto Research Prompts Confusion, Dissenting Opinions on Severity

Few things tend to spark debates and controversy in the security community like a new piece of cryptographic research. The paper by a group of academic researchers on an improvement to a padding oracle attack on certain hardware security tokens publicized this week is no different, with RSA...

HP-UX PHSS_28618 : HP-UX Running on HP9000 Series 700/800, Denial of Service (DoS) (HPSBUX00264 SSRT3460 rev.5) (deprecated)

s700800 11.11 Support Tool Manager Sep 2002 Patch : Certain network traffic can cause programs to fail. %NASLMINLEVEL 999999 @DEPRECATED@ This script has been deprecated as the associated patch is not currently a security fix. Disabled on 2012/12/20. C Tenable Network Security, Inc...

Anonleaks - HBGary Email Viewer Portal ,71,800 Emails Exposed !

Anonleaks - HBGary Email Viewer Portal,71,800 Emails Exposed ! Inboxes new [email protected] - Greg Hoglund - 27,606 emails torrent [email protected] - Aaron Barr - 16,906 emails torrent [email protected] - Ted Vera - 12,134 emails torrent [email protected] - Phil Wallisch - 15,156 emails torrent...

ESA-2010-018: RSA Security Advisory: RSA, The Security Division of EMC, announces a fix for a potential security vulnerability in RSAR Authentication Client when storing secret key objects on an RSA SecurIDR 800 Authenticator

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 ESA-2010-018: RSA Security Advisory: RSA, The Security Division of EMC, announces a fix for a potential security vulnerability in RSA® Authentication Client when storing secret key objects on an RSA SecurID® 800 Authenticator RSA Authentication Client...

CVE-2010-3321

RSA Authentication Client 2.0.x, 3.0, and 3.5.x before 3.5.3 does not properly handle a SENSITIVE or NON-EXTRACTABLE tag on a secret key object that is stored on a SecurID 800 authenticator, which allows local users to bypass intended access restrictions and read keys via unspecified PKCS11 API...

CVE-2010-3321

Summary: CVE-2010-3321 affects RSA Authentication Client 2.0.x, 3.0, and 3.5.x prior to 3.5.3 when used with RSA SecurID 800 authenticators. The secret key objects stored on the authenticator can be extracted due to the PKCS#11 objects being tagged as SENSITIVE and NON-EXTRACTABLE, which should p...

CVE-2010-3321

RSA Authentication Client 2.0.x, 3.0, and 3.5.x before 3.5.3 does not properly handle a SENSITIVE or NON-EXTRACTABLE tag on a secret key object that is stored on a SecurID 800 authenticator, which allows local users to bypass intended access restrictions and read keys via unspecified PKCS11 API...