28% of Internet Users know the Importance of Online Privacy Tools

Privacy is “workings of your mind”. We share our personal moments captured in images, credit card details, thoughts that are personal or professional with a person or a certain group at different instances of time and want it to be safe and secure. We use an electronic gadget to share something...

WhatsApp Spam Campaing Leads to Banking Trojan

Spam emails promoting a non-existent PC version of the popular WhatsApp messaging service could be leading unsuspecting users to a malicious banking Trojan. The emails, written in Portuguese, trick the recipient into thinking they already have 11 pending friend invitations, according to Kaspersky...

Buffer overflow

Buffer overflow in srtp.c in libsrtp in srtp 1.4.5 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service crash via vectors related to a length inconsistency in the cryptopolicysetfromprofileforrtp and srtpprotect functions...

CVE-2013-2139

Buffer overflow in srtp.c in libsrtp in srtp 1.4.5 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service crash via vectors related to a length inconsistency in the cryptopolicysetfromprofileforrtp and srtpprotect functions...

CVE-2013-2139

Removed by vendor...

Cisco srtp library buffer overflow

cryptopolicysetfromprofileforrtp function byffer overflow...

DSA-2840-1 srtp - buffer overflow

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UBUNTU-CVE-2013-7421

The Crypto API in the Linux kernel before 3.18.5 allows local users to load arbitrary kernel modules via a bind system call for an AFALG socket with a module name in the salgname field, a different vulnerability than CVE-2014-9644...

The Year in NSA

It’s that most wonderful time of the year, the time when everyone with access to an email machine puts together a list of the best or worst of whatever happened in the last 12 months. In the computer security world, there is no doubt that such a list would find NSA stories in places one through...

RSA Denies NSA Backdoor Payment Allegations, But Questions Linger

The accumulation of hundreds of leaked documents and formerly secret operational methods used by the NSA in the last six months has led to a bit of a numbing effect, with some new leaks being met with a shrug of indifference. But the latest and most explosive entry in that ledger–the report that...

Firefox 5.0 - 15.0.1 __exposedProps__ XCS Code Execution

On versions of Firefox from 5.0 to 15.0.1, the InstallTrigger global, when given invalid input, would throw an exception that did not have an exposedProps property set. By re-setting this property on the exception object's prototype, the chrome-based defineProperty method is made available. With...

CloudFlare's Red October Crypto app with two-man rule style Encryption and Decryption

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$100 Million Worth of Bitcoins Stolen

UPDATE: As if Bitcoin malware and Bitcoin mining malware weren’t enough to worry about, there was more trouble for the users of the digital crypto-currency last week as 96,000 Bitcoins disappeared from the Sheep Marketplace. Bicoin’s value has surged in recent weeks, peaking at an astonishing...

SuSE 11.2 Security Update : OpenJDK 1.6 (SAT Patch Number 8598)

OpenJDK 1.6 was updated to the new Icedtea release 1.12.7, which includes many fixes for bugs and security issues : - S8006900, CVE-2013-3829: Add new date/time capability - S8008589: Better MBean permission validation - S8011071, CVE-2013-5780: Better crypto provider handling - S8011081,...

Oracle Linux 6 : kernel (ELSA-2013-1645)

The remote Oracle Linux 6 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2013-1645 advisory. - net ipv6: udp packets following an UFO enqueued packet need also be handled by UFO Jiri Pirko 1011930 CVE-2013-4387 - fs compatioctl:...

Going Back to the Future in the Name of Better Security

NEW YORK–If Bill Cheswick had his way, the future of computing and computer security would look a lot like the distant past, with trusted platforms, small programs, applications that can’t affect the operating system and resistance to user mistakes. Cheswick, a former Bell Labs computer scientist...

Code injection

The openvpndecrypt function in crypto.c in OpenVPN 2.3.0 and earlier, when running in UDP mode, allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information via a timing attack involving an HMAC comparison function that does not run in constant time and a padding oracle attack on the CBC mode cipher...

CVE-2013-2061

The openvpndecrypt function in crypto.c in OpenVPN 2.3.0 and earlier, when running in UDP mode, allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information via a timing attack involving an HMAC comparison function that does not run in constant time and a padding oracle attack on the CBC mode cipher...

Amazon Linux AMI : python-crypto (ALAS-2013-243)

The Crypto.Random.atfork function in PyCrypto before 2.6.1 does not properly reseed the pseudo-random number generator PRNG before allowing a child process to access it, which makes it easier for context-dependent attackers to obtain sensitive information by leveraging a race condition in which a...

Fedora 20 : python-crypto-2.6.1-1.fc20 (2013-19390)

In previous versions of PyCrypto, the Crypto.Random PRNG exhibits a race condition that may cause forked processes to generate identical sequences of 'random' numbers. This release fixes the problem by resetting the rate-limiter when Crypto.Random.atfork is invoked. Note that Tenable Network...