Researchers Heat Up Cold-Boot Attack That Works on All Laptops

A pair of researchers have developed an attack method that can bypass mitigations for cold-boot attacks on laptops. A physical attacker can compromise a laptop that’s in sleep mode, potentially lifting sensitive passwords, encryption keys and other information. The ramifications are, on the...

Side-Channel PoC Attack Lifts Private RSA Keys from Mobile Phones

Researchers have developed a proof-of-concept side-channel attack that allows them to pull encryption keys from a single decryption for a modern version of OpenSSL. The attack impacts mobile devices — without physical access to the handsets. A group of researchers at Georgia Tech were able to...

FreeBSD : wpa_supplicant -- unauthenticated encrypted EAPOL-Key data (6bedc863-9fbe-11e8-945f-206a8a720317)

SO-AND-SO reports : A vulnerability was found in how wpasupplicant processes EAPOL-Key frames. It is possible for an attacker to modify the frame in a way that makes wpasupplicant decrypt the Key Data field without requiring a valid MIC value in the frame, i.e., without the frame being...

CVE-2016-8637

A local information disclosure issue was found in dracut before 045 when generating initramfs images with world-readable permissions when 'early cpio' is used, such as when including microcode updates. Local attacker can use this to obtain sensitive information from these files, such as encryptio...

Information disclosure

A local information disclosure issue was found in dracut before 045 when generating initramfs images with world-readable permissions when 'early cpio' is used, such as when including microcode updates. Local attacker can use this to obtain sensitive information from these files, such as encryptio...

CVE-2016-8637

A local information disclosure issue was found in dracut before 045 when generating initramfs images with world-readable permissions when 'early cpio' is used, such as when including microcode updates. Local attacker can use this to obtain sensitive information from these files, such as encryptio...

DEBIAN-CVE-2016-8637

A local information disclosure issue was found in dracut before 045 when generating initramfs images with world-readable permissions when 'early cpio' is used, such as when including microcode updates. Local attacker can use this to obtain sensitive information from these files, such as encryptio...

CVE-2016-8637

A local information disclosure issue was found in dracut before 045 when generating initramfs images with world-readable permissions when 'early cpio' is used, such as when including microcode updates. Local attacker can use this to obtain sensitive information from these files, such as encryptio...

UBUNTU-CVE-2016-8637

A local information disclosure issue was found in dracut before 045 when generating initramfs images with world-readable permissions when 'early cpio' is used, such as when including microcode updates. Local attacker can use this to obtain sensitive information from these files, such as encryptio...

CVE-2016-8637

A local information disclosure issue was found in dracut before 045 when generating initramfs images with world-readable permissions when 'early cpio' is used, such as when including microcode updates. Local attacker can use this to obtain sensitive information from these files, such as encryptio...

CVE-2016-8637

A local information disclosure issue was found in dracut before 045 when generating initramfs images with world-readable permissions when 'early cpio' is used, such as when including microcode updates. Local attacker can use this to obtain sensitive information from these files, such as encryptio...

Apple Transfers Chinese Users' iCloud Data to State-Controlled Data Centers

There's terrible news for Apple users in China. Apple's Chinese data center partner has transferred iCloud data, belonging to 130 million China-based users, to a cloud storage service managed by a state-owned mobile telecom provider—raising concerns about privacy. Back in February this year, Appl...

Apple Transfers Chinese Users' iCloud Data to State-Controlled Data Centers

There's terrible news for Apple users in China. Apple's Chinese data center partner has transferred iCloud data, belonging to 130 million China-based users, to a cloud storage service managed by a state-owned mobile telecom provider—raising concerns about privacy. Back in February this year, Appl...

Unspecified Vulnerability in ECOS Secure Boot Stick (CNVD-2019-38285)

The ECOS Secure Boot Stick a.k.a. SBS is a security device from ECOS TECHNOLOGY, Germany for remote access to Citrix, Microsoft Terminal Server, VMware and other web applications. A security vulnerability exists in ECOS SBS version 5.6.5. An attacker could exploit the vulnerability to take contro...

Unspecified Vulnerability in ECOS Secure Boot Stick (CNVD-2019-38284)

The ECOS Secure Boot Stick a.k.a. SBS is a security device from ECOS TECHNOLOGY, Germany for remote access to Citrix, Microsoft Terminal Server, VMware and other web applications. A security vulnerability exists in ECOS SBS version 5.6.5. An attacker could exploit the vulnerability to take contro...

Unspecified Vulnerability in ECOS Secure Boot Stick

The ECOS Secure Boot Stick a.k.a. SBS is a security device from ECOS TECHNOLOGY, Germany for remote access to Citrix, Microsoft Terminal Server, VMware and other web applications. A security vulnerability exists in ECOS SBS version 5.6.5. An attacker could exploit the vulnerability to take contro...

SUSE SLES11 Security Update : kernel (SUSE-SU-2018:1849-1)

The SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 SP3 LTSS kernel was updated to receive various security and bugfixes. The following security bug was fixed : - CVE-2018-3665: Prevent disclosure of FPU registers including XMM and AVX registers between processes. These registers might contain encryption keys when doin...

SUSE-SU-2018:1849-1 Security update for the Linux Kernel

The SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 SP3 LTSS kernel was updated to receive various security and bugfixes. The following security bug was fixed: - CVE-2018-3665: Prevent disclosure of FPU registers including XMM and AVX registers between processes. These registers might contain encryption keys when doing...

SUSE SLES11 Security Update : kernel (SUSE-SU-2018:1821-1)

The SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 SP4 kernel was updated to receive various security and bugfixes. This new feature was added : - Btrfs: Remove empty block groups in the background The following security bugs were fixed : - CVE-2018-3665: Prevent disclosure of FPU registers including XMM and AVX...

Free Thanatos Ransomware Decryption Tool Released

If your computer has been infected with Thanatos Ransomware and you are searching for a free ransomware decryption tool to unlock or decrypt your files—your search is over here. Security researchers at Cisco Talos have discovered a weakness in the Thanatos ransomware code that makes it possible f...