HTTPS can leak your Personal details to Attackers

Explosive revelations of massive surveillance programs conducted by government agencies by the former contractor Edward Snowden triggered new debate about the security and privacy of each individual who is connected somehow to the Internet and after the Snowden’s disclosures they think that by...

Silent Circle's Blackphone - Privacy and Security Focused Smartphone for $629

Earlier this year encrypted communications firm Silent Circle and Spanish Smartphone maker Geeksphone announced a privacy-focused encrypted Smartphone called 'Blackphone' and today the company has revealed it as 'Mobile World Congress' in Barcelona. The Blackphone titled as, “world’s first...

Biggest American Bank 'JPMorgan Chase' hacked; 465,000 card users' data stolen

JPMorgan Chase, one of the world's biggest Banks has recently announced that it was the victim of a cyber attack and warned round 465,000 of its holders of prepaid cash cards on the possible exposure of their personal information. In the Security Breach that took place on the bank's website...

BREACH decodes HTTPS encrypted data in 30 seconds

A new hacking technique dubbed BREACH can extract login tokens, session ID numbers and other sensitive information from SSL/TLS encrypted web traffic in just 30 seconds. The technique was demonstrated at the Black Hat security conference in Las Vegas Presentation PDF & Paper by Gluck along with...

Research Outlines New Deep Freeze Data Recovery Technique on Android Phone

Hackers and data recovery specialists alike could soon be turning to a new technique that under the right conditions can allow for the harvesting of personal information from phones, even after they’ve been frozen. A group of German researchers from the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg have...

TLS response timings can indicate network contents – Opera Security Advisories

When Opera receives incorrectly encrypted network data, Opera will detect this, and let the sender know that the data was not understood. Such encrypted error responses are marginally faster than regular responses. An attacker with access to the network, can by replacing network data measure...

TrendMicro DataArmor / DriveArmor multiple security vulnerabilities

Restriction bypass, privilege escalation, encrypted data access...

Default configuration

The default configuration of Cerberus FTP Server before 5.0.4.0 supports the DES cipher for SSH sessions, which makes it easier for remote attackers to obtain sensitive information by sniffing the network and performing a brute-force attack on the encrypted data...

CentOS 5 : ecryptfs-utils (CESA-2011:1241)

Updated ecryptfs-utils packages that fix several security issues are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and 6. The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having moderate security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base scores, which give detailed severity...

EFF Argues Forced Decryption Violates Fifth Amendment

Digital civil liberties organization, the Electric Frontier Foundation EFF, appealed to the U.S. District Court of Colorado arguing that encrypted personal data is covered by the Fifth Amendment’s protection against self incrimination. The group submitted a brief of Amicus Curaie .PDF last week o...

Nokia under scanner of Indian Intelligence Agency for its Push Email service and SMS !

Department of Telecommunication DOT has been asked by The Intelligence Bureau IB0 to stop the messaging services of Nokia in India until they can be monitored. Once again security concerns have clouded Intelligence department's mind and the incident is not first of its kind. Earlier too similar...

PGP Desktop Signed Data Spoofing Vulnerability

This host is running PGP Desktop and is prone to signed data spoofing Vulnerability OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $Id: gbpgpdesktopdataspoofingvuln.nasl 4919 2017-01-02 15:22:45Z cfi $ PGP Desktop Signed Data Spoofing Vulnerability Authors: Antu Sanadi Copyright c 2010 Greenbone Networks GmbH,...

Buffer overflow

Microsoft .NET Framework 1.1 SP1, 2.0 SP1 and SP2, 3.5, 3.5 SP1, 3.5.1, and 4.0, as used for ASP.NET in Microsoft Internet Information Services IIS, provides detailed error codes during decryption attempts, which allows remote attackers to decrypt and modify encrypted View State aka VIEWSTATE for...

Research Finds Crystal Material For Chip Security

Researchers at Florida State University have discovered crystals that could lead to super security chips. The security chips could store encrypted data written two different ways — electrically and magnetically — making extraction of the data more complex and so more difficult for attackers to...

CVE-2008-2780

The Anubis aka Anubis+Ripe160 plugin before 1.3 for encrypt stores the unencrypted file's size in cleartext in the header of the encrypted file, which allows attackers to distinguish between encrypted data and random padding at the end of the encrypted file...

CVE-2004-2703

The CVE-2004-2703 entry concerns Clearswift MIMEsweeper 5.0.5, upgraded from MAILsweeper SMTP versions, where remote data that is encrypted within a mail message can bypass scanning and be marked as Clean rather than Encrypted. This describes the affected product/function (MIMEsweeper 5.0.5 after...

Information disclosure

RemoteDocs R-Viewer before 1.6.3768 stores encrypted RDZ file data in unencrypted temporary files, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information by reading the temporary files...

CVE-2007-4751

RemoteDocs R-Viewer before 1.6.3768 stores encrypted RDZ file data in unencrypted temporary files, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information by reading the temporary files...

Symantec On-Demand Agent / Symantec On-Demand Protection protection bypass

It's possible to access encrypted data...

CVE-2004-2703

Clearswift MIMEsweeper 5.0.5, when it has been upgraded from MAILsweeper for SMTP version 4.3 or MAILsweeper Business Suite I or II, allows remote attackers to bypass scanning by including encrypted data in a mail message, which causes the message to be marked as "Clean" instead of "Encrypted"...