Microsoft Keeps Backup of Your Encryption Key on its Server — Here's How to Delete it

Have you recently purchased a Windows computer? Congratulations! As your new Windows computer has inbuilt disk encryption feature that is turned on by default in order to protect your data in case your device is lost or stolen. Moreover, In case you lost your encryption keys then don't worry,...

Google Makes Full-Disk Encryption Mandatory for New Android 6.0 Devices

Yes, Google wants you to keep your bits and bytes as safe as possible through encryption. With the launch of Android 5.0 Lollipop last year, Google wanted to make full disk Encryption mandatory, but unfortunately, the idea did not go too well. However, Google thinks the idea will go right this...

QNAP crypto keys logged on unencrypted disk partition in world accessible files

Affected devices: ================= Probably all QNAP devices running the QNAP modified 3.12.6 kernel with firmware older than 4.1.4 Build 0804. Verified on TS-453S Pro and TVS-471, both with Firmware 4.1.4 Build 0522. Probably fixed with Firmware 4.1.4 Build 0804 incriminating message gone, thou...

BackBox Linux 4.3 - Ubuntu-based Linux Distribution Penetration Test and Security Assessment

BackBox is a Linux distribution based on Ubuntu. It has been developed to perform penetration tests and security assessments. Designed to be fast, easy to use and provide a minimal yet complete desktop environment, thanks to its own software repositories, always being updated to the latest stable...

USBkill - Anti-Forensic Kill-Switch that waits for a change on your USB ports

USBkill is an anti-forensic kill-switch that waits for a change on your USB ports and then immediately shuts down your computer. To run: sudo python usbkill.py Why? Some reasons to use this tool: In case the police or other thugs come busting in or steal your laptop from you when you are at a...

Open-Source Disk Encryption for Windows: LibreCrypt

LibreCrypt is an Open-Source “on-the-fly” transparent disk encryption for Windows both 32 and 64 bit. LUKS compatible – formerly DoxBox. This software can create “virtual disks” on your computer – anything written to these disks is automatically encrypted before being stored on your computer’s ha...

Android phone to restore the factory settings, the data can still be recovery-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

If you are planning to sell your old Android phone, we recommend that you still give more consideration to consider...... Android Restore factory settings function has a vulnerability, even if you restore the factory settings, hackers can still recover your login password, SMS, e-mail and picture...

Android Factory Reset Improper Sanitization Exposes Data

The churn of Android devices, whether older smartphones being traded in or sold online, makes device sanitization imperative. The native feature in the OS, however, may not be doing as thorough a job as advertised. A paper, “Security Analysis of Android Factory Resets” pdf, published by Ross...

Flawed Android Factory Reset Failed to Clear Private Data from Smartphones

If you’re planning to sell your old Android smartphone then you need to think again because there is a weakness in the Android Factory Reset option that could be exploited to recover your login credentials, text messages, emails and pictures even if you have wiped its memory clean. Computer...

BackBox Linux 4.2 - Ubuntu-based Linux Distribution Penetration Test and Security Assessment

BackBox is a Linux distribution based on Ubuntu. It has been developed to perform penetration tests and security assessments. Designed to be fast, easy to use and provide a minimal yet complete desktop environment, thanks to its own software repositories, always being updated to the latest stable...

CVE-2015-1415

The bsdinstall installer in FreeBSD 10.x before 10.1 p9, when configuring full disk encrypted ZFS, uses world-readable permissions for the GELI keyfile /boot/encryption.key, which allows local users to obtain sensitive key information by reading the file...

CVE-2015-1415

FreeBSD 10.x installations using the bsdinstall installer with full-disk encrypted ZFS store the GELI master key in /boot/encryption.key with permissions 0644, exposing the key to local users. Root cause: default keyfile permissions are too open (world-readable) instead of 0600. Impact: local att...

FreeBSD -- Insecure default GELI keyfile permissions

Problem Description: The default permission set by bsdinstall8 installer when configuring full disk encrypted ZFS is too open. Impact: A local attacker may be able to get a copy of the geli8 provider's keyfile which is located at a fixed location...

Change to Lollipop Encryption Policy May Not Have Much Effect, Experts Say

Google has made a subtle, but important, shift in the requirements for Android handset makers, saying now that OEMs manufacturing phones that will run Lollipop do not have to enable disk encryption by default. This is a major change from the company’s stated position from just a few months ago, b...

Use HTC One vulnerability to crack mobile PIN password-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

HTC One phone is running Android 4.2.2 and HBOOT 1.54.0000, it exists a file called Bootloader vulnerability. This vulnerability early in the 2 0 1 4 year 2 month's report to the HTC official, and at times months to fix the vulnerability. In get HTC official consent, we will now take the entire...

Mac EFI is exposed a major security vulnerability by Thunderbolt devices to spread malicious programs-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

Next week, Germany at the Chaos Communication Congress Security Conference, a researcher Trammell Hudson will present a new method, through the unique production of Thunderbolt devices in the Mac EFI boot firmware in the injection almost impossible to not remove the Bootkit virus. The exploits of...

CVE-2013-2599

A certain Qualcomm Innovation Center QuIC patch to the NativeDaemonConnector class in services/java/com/android/server/NativeDaemonConnector.java in Code Aurora Forum CAF releases of Android 4.1.x through 4.3.x enables debug logging, which allows attackers to obtain sensitive disk-encryption...

Code injection

A certain Qualcomm Innovation Center QuIC patch to the NativeDaemonConnector class in services/java/com/android/server/NativeDaemonConnector.java in Code Aurora Forum CAF releases of Android 4.1.x through 4.3.x enables debug logging, which allows attackers to obtain sensitive disk-encryption...

Check Point Endpoint Security Full Disk Encryption RDP Connection Denial of Service Vulnerability

No description provided by source. source: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/36315/info Check Point Software Endpoint Security Full Disk Encryption for Microsoft Windows is prone to a remote denial-of-service vulnerability. Exploiting this issue will allow attackers to crash the affected computer,...

CVE-2014-2005

Sophos Disk Encryption SDE 5.x in Sophos Enterprise Console SEC 5.x before 5.2.2 does not enforce intended authentication requirements for a resume action from sleep mode, which allows physically proximate attackers to obtain desktop access by leveraging the absence of a login screen...