Google Removing SHA-1 Support in Chrome 56

The home stretch for SHA-1 deprecation is in full effect with Google on Wednesday announcing its final deprecation deadlines for the Chrome browser, and a cryptographic services provider warning that there’s still a long way to go to get sites off SHA-1 certificates. Google said it will remove it...

AIX 6.1 TL 9 : nettcp (IV79071) (SLOTH) (deprecated)

https://vulners.com/cve/CVE-2015-7575 The TLS protocol could allow weaker than expected security caused by a collision attack when using the MD5 hash function for signing a ServerKeyExchange message during a TLS handshake. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability using man-in-the-middle...

NIST Recommends SMS Two-Factor Authentication Deprecation

A U.S. government agency said the end is nigh for SMS-based two-factor authentication, citing a lack of security around the feature. The latest draft version of the Digital Authentication Guideline issued this week by the U.S. National Institute for Standards and Technology NIST said the practice...

Google To Deprecate SSLv3, RC4 in Gmail IMAP/POP Clients

Google said that it will initiate on June 16 a gradual deprecation of SSLv3 and RC4 for Gmail IMAP/POP mail clients. Both the crypto protocols cipher are notoriously unsafe and are being phased out in big chunks of the Internet. Google, for its part, had already announced in May that it would no...

WordPress plugin "Markdown on Save Improved" vulnerable to cross-site scripting

Overview The WordPress plugin "Markdown on Save Improved" contains a stored cross-site scripting CWE-79 vulnerability. Kenta Yamamoto of Cryptography Laboratory,Department of Information and Communication Engineering, Graduate School of Tokyo Denki University reported this vulnerability to IPA...

Microsoft's SHA-1 Deprecation Begins with Windows 10 Anniversary Update

The home stretch of Microsoft’s planned SHA-1 deprecation schedule has arrived. This summer, with the planned release of the Windows 10 Anniversary Update, users should see signs that the weak cryptographic hash function is being phased out. Microsoft said that once the anniversary update is roll...

Microsoft Root Certificate Program SHA-1 Deprecation Advisory (3123479)

This host is missing an important security update according to Microsoft advisory 3123479. SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2016 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...

End of Life for Internet Explorer 8, 9 and 10

Microsoft has started the year with an announcement that, effective Jan. 12, 2016, support for all older versions of Internet Explorer IE will come to an end known as an EoL, or End of Life. The affected versions are Internet Explorer 7, 8, 9, and 10. What this means for users is that Microsoft...

Microsoft security advisory: Deprecation of SHA-1 hashing algorithm for Microsoft root certificate program: January 12, 2016

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Mozilla Warns of SHA-1 Deprecation Side Effects

As promised, Mozilla officially began rejecting new SHA-1 certificates as of the first of the year. And as promised, there have been some usability issues. Mozilla yesterday said that some security scanners and antivirus products are keeping some from reaching HTTPS websites. “When a user tries t...

Google SHA-1 Deprecation

Google has announced its timeline for deprecating SHA-1 certificates, despite concerns expressed recently that sunsetting the broken encryption hashing algorithm will disconnect millions from the Internet. SHA-1’s demise has been accelerated in recent months since researchers published a paper...

Solaris 10 (x86) : 151722-01 (deprecated)

GNOME 2.6.0x86: GDK-PixBuf library Patch. Date this patch was last updated by Sun : Dec/17/15 This plugin has been deprecated and either replaced with individual 151722 patch-revision plugins, or deemed non-security related. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. @DEPRECATED@ Disabl...

Microsoft Considers Earlier SHA-1 Deprecation Deadline

Tech companies continue to back away from SHA-1 like it’s an infectious disease. Microsoft, which already had plans to deprecate the crusty cryptographic algorithm by the start of 2017, decided this week to move up that deadline six months. The company said it’s considering whether it will start...

Google Outlines Plans to Deprecate RC4, SSLv3

As expected, Google formally announced its intent to move away from the stream cipher RC4 and the SSLv3 protocol this week, citing a long history of weaknesses in both. Adam Langley, a security engineer for the company, announced the plans through a blog post on Thursday. While there isn’t a...

Fedora 21 : php-twig-1.20.0-1.fc21 (2015-13423)

1.20.0 2015-08-12 forbid access to the Twig environment from templates and internal parts of TwigTemplate fixed limited RCEs when in sandbox mode deprecated TwigTemplate::getEnvironment deprecated the self variable for usage outside of the from and import tags added TwigBaseNodeVisitor to ease th...

Google, Mozilla End RC4 Support

Google, Microsoft and Mozilla today announced they’ve settled on a timeframe to permanently deprecate the shaky RC4 encryption algorithm. Attacks against RC4 are growing increasingly practical, rendering the algorithm more untrustworthy by the day. The browser makers plan to sever support for RC4...

IETF Officially Deprecates SSLv3

Attacks such as POODLE and BEAST not only caused some sleepless nights for server admins having to patch against the respective weaknesses, but they also accelerated SSLV3 deprecation. In the time since both attacks were disclosed, major browsers have removed the fallback condition that enabled t...

Facebook Requires SHA-2 Support as of Oct. 1, 2015

Facebook has put developers on notice that as of Oct. 1, apps that do not support SHA-2 will no longer connect to its network. With Tuesday’s announcement, the tech giant has fallen in line alongside Google, Mozilla and Microsoft in deprecating the SHA-1 and older hash algorithms. “These changes...

Solaris 10 (sparc) : 148309-08 (deprecated)

SunOS 5.10: dhcp patch. Date this patch was last updated by Sun : Sep/06/17 This plugin has been deprecated and either replaced with individual 148309 patch-revision plugins, or deemed non-security related. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. @DEPRECATED@ Disabled on 2018/03/12...

[SECURITY] Fedora 21 Update: python3-3.4.1-16.fc21

Python 3 is a new version of the language that is incompatible with the 2.x line of releases. The language is mostly the same, but many details, especi ally how built-in objects like dictionaries and strings work, have changed considerably, and a lot of deprecated features have finally been remov...