Free SSL Sparks Unprecedented Growth in Encrypted Traffic

If recent telemetry from Mozilla is indeed representative of the Internet, then it would appear that half of all traffic in transit is encrypted, a more than 10 percent jump from last December. The emergence of free Certificate Authorities such as Let’s Encrypt, and similar gratis HTTPS certifica...

New HTTPS URL Leakage Attack Leaves PCs, Macs, Linux Systems Vulnerable

LAS VEGAS — Researchers have found flaws in the Web Proxy AutoDiscovery protocol tied to DHCP and DNS servers that allow hackers spy on HTTPS-protected URLs and launch a myriad of different malicious attacks against Linux, Windows or Mac computers. According to the security firm SafeBreach, this...

Is it possible to optimize SSH or SFTP connections?

QUESTION: Is it possible to optimize SSH or SFTP connections? ANSWER: SSH and SFTP are encrypted traffic: SSH one-time encrypted data stream and SFTP goes over the SSH port CloudBridge can only optimize with flow-control-only but won't be able to compress it...

SSL/TLS: Cross-protocol attack on TLS using SSLv2 (DROWN)

A padding oracle flaw was found in the Secure Sockets Layer version 2.0 SSLv2 protocol. An attacker could potentially use this flaw to decrypt RSA-encrypted cipher text from a connection using a newer SSL/TLS protocol version, allowing them to decrypt such connections. This cross-protocol attack ...

Amazon Certificate Manager Brings Free SSL Certs to AWS Users

Amazon is getting into the certificate game. The company announced late last week that it launched a certificate manager to expedite the process of securing SSL/TLS certificates for customers looking to add HTTPS to their sites or apps. The move comes less than a year after Amazon applied to...

Kazakhstan makes it Mandatory for its Citizens to Install Internet Backdoor

Next in the queue, Kazakhstan is also planning to Spy on encrypted Internet Traffic of its citizens, but in the most shameless way. Unlike other spying nations that are themselves capable of spying on their citizens, Kazakhstan will force every internet user in the country to install bogus securi...

MobSF (Mobile Security Framework) - Mobile (Android/iOS) Automated Pen-Testing Framework

Mobile Security Framework MobSF is an intelligent, all-in-one open source mobile application Android/iOS automated pen-testing framework capable of performing static and dynamic analysis. We've been depending on multiple tools to carry out reversing, decoding, debugging, code review, and pen-test...

Antivirus Avast is exposed 0day vulnerabilities in users computer to execute malicious code-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

Google security expert Tavis Ormandy, found a Avast antivirus of 0day vulnerabilities, the vulnerabilities could lead to attackers invade a user's computer and the user computers to execute malicious code. Tavis Ormandy recently in the Avast antivirus found a serious 0day vulnerability. And just...

Apple Removes Apps That Expose Encrypted Traffic

Apple has purged its App Store of a number of apps that expose encrypted traffic via the installation of root certificates. Apple has declined to name the apps. “Apple has removed a few apps from the App Store that install root certificates that could allow monitoring of data,” Apple said today i...

NetRipper - Smart Traffic Sniffing for Penetration Testers

NetRipper is a post exploitation tool targeting Windows systems which uses API hooking in order to intercept network traffic and encryption related functions from a low privileged user, being able to capture both plain-text traffic and encrypted traffic before encryption/after decryption. NetRipp...

Amazon Patches Certificate Vulnerabilities in Fire Phones

Amazon last week patched three vulnerabilities in its Fire smartphones, including two in its Certinstaller package that put devices at risk. An attacker could take advantage of the vulnerability in the package, which allows mobile apps to install certificates on Amazon Fire devices without user...

Grindr v2.1.1 iOS & Account System - Breach Attack

Document Title: =============== Grindr v2.1.1 iOS & Account System - Breach Attack References Source: ==================== http://www.vulnerability-lab.com/getcontent.php?id=1420 Release Date: ============= 2015-05-02 Vulnerability Laboratory ID VL-ID: ==================================== 1420...

Google Proposes Marking 'HTTP' as Insecure in 2015

The Chromium security team is devising a plan to explicitly and actively inform users that ‘HTTP’ connections provide no data security protections. Google’s grand vision is that some day, HTTPS will become so widespread and commonplace that secure connections can be unmarked in the way that HTTP...

Chinese Government Accused of Intercepting Traffic Between Google and CERNET

So far, we all are well aware of the fact that Chinese have had a past filled with cases of Cyber Crime. China is the world’s largest exporter of IT goods, but it has been criticized by many countries due to suspected backdoors in its products, including United States which has banned its several...

Dyreza Banker Trojan Seen Bypassing SSL

Banker Trojans have proven to be reliable and effective tools for attackers interested in quietly stealing large amounts of money from unwitting victims. Zeus, Carberp and many others have made piles of money for their creators and the attackers who use them, and researchers have been looking at ...

Answers is vulnerable to BREACH (SSL/HTTP gzip) attack

This is an external report, and not a high priority - certainly much lower impact than ANSWERS-648. This issue was reported by Nakul Mohan , 11 May - the email is too long to reproduce here. An attacker with the ability to: Inject partial chosen plaintext into a victim's requests Measure the size...

Small Number of Malicious Tor Exit Relays Snooping Traffic

A small number of Tor exit relays are misbehaving, conducting man-in-the-middle attacks and monitoring encrypted traffic from users of the anonymity network. Researchers from Karlstad University in Sweden published a paper this week examining the malicious behavior of some Tor exit relays and fou...

[Orbot] Mobile Anonymity + Circumvention

Orbot is a free proxy app that empowers other apps to use the internet more securely. Orbot uses Tor to encrypt your Internet traffic and then hides it by bouncing through a series of computers around the world. Tor is free software and an open network that helps you defend against a form of...

Junos Pulse Secure IVE / UAC OS Multiple SSL Vulnerabilities

According to its self-reported version, the version of IVE / UAC OS running on the remote host may be affected by multiple vulnerabilities : - Remote attackers may be able to trigger buffer overflow vulnerabilities on the OpenSSL libraries by sending specially crafted DER data, resulting in memor...

Tor Anonymizing network overload caused by Mevade Botnet

Recently, Tor Project Director - Roger Dingledine described a sudden increase in Tor users on the Tor Network after the events related to disclosure of the PRISM surveillance program, Since August 19, 2013, there has been an impressive growth in the number of Tor users. At first, No one knew who ...