Crypto Pioneers Write Letter on NSA Surveillance to Obama

Perhaps the biggest condemnation of President Obama’s address last Friday announcing reforms to the NSA’s surveillance programs was his failure to mention any of the agency’s alleged involvement in subverting cryptography standards and the impact that has had on the trustworthiness of products...

OpenBSD Project survived after $20,000 Donation from Romanian Bitcoin Billionaire

Last year in the month of December the Security-focused Unix-like distribution 'OpenBSD' Foundation announced that it was facing shut down due to lack of funds to pay their electricity bills and dedicated Internet line costs. Theo de Raadt, the founder of the OpenBSD project, and Bob Beck Develop...

RedHat Update for openssl RHSA-2014:0015-01

Check for the Version of openssl OpenVAS Vulnerability Test RedHat Update for openssl RHSA-2014:0015-01 Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright C 2014 Greenbone Networks GmbH, http://www.greenbone.net This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the...

RedHat Update for openssl RHSA-2014:0015-01

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2014 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

Fedora Update for libsrtp FEDORA-2013-24114

Check for the Version of libsrtp OpenVAS Vulnerability Test Fedora Update for libsrtp FEDORA-2013-24114 Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright C 2014 Greenbone Networks GmbH, http://www.greenbone.net This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the...

IRTF Chair Refuses Removal of NSA Employee as Co-Chair of Crypto Working Group

An NSA employee who is the co-chairman of a cryptography working group affiliated with the IETF will remain in that position despite calls from members to have him removed. The chairman of the Internet Research Task Force, the body that oversees the research group, rejected requests for the remov...

[Bugtroid] Pentesting for Android

Bugtroid is an innovative tool developed by the team of Bugtraq-Team. The main features of this apk, is that it has more than 200 Android and Linux tools PRO for pentesting and forensics through its Smarthphone or tablet. It has a menu categorized according to the nature of the tool may find:...

[SECURITY] Fedora 20 Update: libreswan-3.7-1.fc20

Libreswan is a free implementation of IPsec & IKE for Linux. IPsec is the Internet Protocol Security and uses strong cryptography to provide both authentication and encryption services. These services allow you to build secure tunnels through untrusted networks. Everything passing through the...

[SECURITY] Fedora 18 Update: libreswan-3.7-1.fc18

Libreswan is a free implementation of IPsec & IKE for Linux. IPsec is the Internet Protocol Security and uses strong cryptography to provide both authentication and encryption services. These services allow you to build secure tunnels through untrusted networks. Everything passing through the...

Fedora Update for libreswan FEDORA-2013-23299

Check for the Version of libreswan OpenVAS Vulnerability Test Fedora Update for libreswan FEDORA-2013-23299 Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright C 2013 Greenbone Networks GmbH, http://www.greenbone.net This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under t...

[SSLDigger v1.02] Tool to assess the strength of SSL

SSLDigger v1.02 is a tool to assess the strength of SSL servers by testing the ciphers supported. Some of these ciphers are known to be insecure. Features: full Browser Support using Microsoft Internet Explorer Browser Control support for operating the tool in batch modefor operating on multiple...

Fedora Update for mod_nss FEDORA-2013-22786

Check for the Version of modnss OpenVAS Vulnerability Test Fedora Update for modnss FEDORA-2013-22786 Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright C 2013 Greenbone Networks GmbH, http://www.greenbone.net This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the ter...

CVE-2013-6394

Percona XtraBackup had an IV handling flaw (constant IV) up to 2.1.6, enabling plaintext-attacks against encrypted backups. The issue is acknowledged as a result of an incomplete fix; later advisories indicate that xbcrypt in 2.3.6 and 2.4.x before 2.4.5 does not properly set the IV, implying an ...

Improperly Issued Digital Certificates Could Allow Spoofing (Microsoft Security Advisory 2916652)

The remote host is missing either KB2677070 or KB2917500. If KB2677070 is installed, it is missing the latest auto-updates. Note that this plugin checks that the updaters have actually updated the disallowed CTL list, not that the KBs listed are installed. This approach was taken since the...

Matthew Green on How NSA Breaks SSL

In order for the National Security Agency to collect the massive amounts of communication it has from email and Web traffic, it needs to elude, leapfrog or bash through the barrier that is SSL. How it’s doing so is the real question, one that noted Johns Hopkins cryptographer Matthew Green wants...

RedHat Update for mod_nss RHSA-2013:1779-01

Check for the Version of modnss OpenVAS Vulnerability Test RedHat Update for modnss RHSA-2013:1779-01 Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright C 2013 Greenbone Networks GmbH, http://www.greenbone.net This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the ter...

[SECURITY] Fedora 20 Update: mod_nss-1.0.8-24.fc20

The modnss module provides strong cryptography for the Apache Web server via the Secure Sockets Layer SSL and Transport Layer Security TLS protocols using the Network Security Services NSS security library...

Fedora Update for mod_nss FEDORA-2013-19985

Check for the Version of modnss OpenVAS Vulnerability Test Fedora Update for modnss FEDORA-2013-19985 Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright c 2013 Greenbone Networks GmbH, http://www.greenbone.net This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the ter...

Fedora Update for mod_nss FEDORA-2013-19976

Check for the Version of modnss OpenVAS Vulnerability Test Fedora Update for modnss FEDORA-2013-19976 Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright c 2013 Greenbone Networks GmbH, http://www.greenbone.net This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the ter...

TrueCrypt Audit Team Creates Technical Advisory Board

As the TrueCrypt audit chugs along toward a deterministic, clean build of the open-source encryption software and a palatable license, the organizers have brought prominent security and legal experts aboard as a technical advisory team. The experts will not only provide guidance on the current...