CVE-2015-6846

EMC SourceOne Email Supervisor before 7.2 uses hardcoded encryption keys, which makes it easier for attackers to obtain access by examining how a program's code conducts cryptographic operations...

Magmi Magento Zero Day Under Attack

A zero-day in a popular plugin for the Magento ecommerce platform is under attack. Attackers are using a few IP addresses to scan for vulnerable versions of Magmi, which is an open source database client that imports data into Magento. “We’ve seen a couple hundred requests for this specific attac...

Apple Clarifies Privacy Policy

Apple’s clarified and repackaged privacy policy is merely the storefront to a company-wide decision to make the safety and integrity of user data a differentiator among large technology companies, experts said. The new privacy policy appeared today filled with practical advice for users, describi...

Deleting WhatsApp Messages Before 90 Days Could Land you in Jail

While the Indian people continue to struggle for Net Neutrality, a new problem surrounded them with the release of the latest policy for ‘National Encryption Policy’ by the Indian Government. If you delete your WhatsApp Messages or Emails that you receive or send before 90 days, it might be a cri...

Cisco Sourcefire User Agent 2.2 - Insecure File Permissions

Exploit for windows platform in category local exploits / Cisco Sourcefire User Agent Insecure File Permissions Vulnerability Vendor: Cisco Product webpage: http://www.cisco.com Affected versions: Cisco SF User Agent 2.2 Fixed versions: Cisco SF User Agent 2.2-25 Date: 08/09/2015 Credits: Glafkos...

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...

Vulnerability-Riddled Drug Pumps Open to Takeover

One medical device company’s line of drug pumps is so fraught with vulnerabilities that the researcher that discovered the flaws claims the pump is the least secure IP-enabled device he’s ever come across. Certain versions of Hospira’s Lifecare PCA3 Drug Infusion pumps are susceptible to multiple...

BlackBerry Warns Many Products Vulnerable to FREAK Attack

BlackBerry is warning customers that a large portion of the company’s product portfolio is vulnerable to the FREAK SSL attack. Many versions of the BlackBerry OS and BlackBerry Enterprise Server are vulnerable to FREAK, as are a number of versions of BlackBerry Messenger. The advisory from...

N-Tron 702W Hard-Coded SSH and HTTPS Encryption Keys (Update A)

OVERVIEW This updated advisory is a follow-up to the original advisory titled ICSA-15-160-01 N-Tron 702W Hard-Coded SSH and HTTPS Encryption Keys that was published June 9, 2015, on the NCCIC/ICS-CERT web site. Independent researcher Neil Smith has identified hard-coded SSH and HTTPS encryption...

(Mobile Pwn2Own) Google Android Bluetooth Forced Pairing Vulnerability

This vulnerability allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code on vulnerable installations of Google Android. Authentication is not required to exploit this vulnerability. The specific flaw exists within the Bluetooth application stack allowing for arbitrary Host Controller Interface comman...

CIA Has Been Hacking iPhone and iPad Encryption Security

Security researchers at the Central Intelligence Agency CIA have worked for almost a decade to target security keys used to encrypt data stored on Apple devices in order to break the system. Citing the top-secret documents obtained from NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, The Intercept blog reporte...

Komodia Certificate Manipulation Enabled Man-In-The-Middle Attacks

The shoddy state of SSL certificate validation on the Internet again floated to the surface, this time by the Superfish mess, which continues to get worse. The Electronic Frontier Foundation on Wednesday released a report based on data scoured from the Decentralized SSL Observatory which it...

NSA Could Be Hoping For Clipper Chip Redux

The NSA has a new director, a slew of new challenges and any number of new capabilities at its disposal. But it seems that the agency is intent on fighting the same old battles. Even as fresh revelations about the extent of the NSA’s efforts to get access to encryption keys for mobile...

Gemalto Hack May Have Far-Reaching Effects

Security experts are still trying to assess the effects of the reported attack on SIM card manufacturer that resulted in the theft of millions of encryption keys for mobile phones around the world, but it’s safe to say that the operation has caused reverberations throughout the industry and...

NSA Stole Millions Of SIM Card Encryption Keys To Gather Private Data

Edward Snowden is back with one of the biggest revelations about the government's widespread surveillance program. The US National Security Agency NSA and British counterpart Government Communications Headquarters GCHQ hacked into the networks of the world's biggest SIM card manufacturer, accordi...

China Demands Tech Companies to give them Backdoor and Encryption Keys

A number of western companies are doing big business in China, but now they may have to pay a huge value for to do so. China has introduced strict new banking cyber security regulations on western companies selling technology to Chinese banks. The Chinese government wants backdoors installed in a...

Fortinet FortiClient Hardcoded Encryption Keys / Broken SSL Validation

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Samsung Rebuffs Criticism of Knox Crypto, Password Management

Replies and rebuttals are flying about regarding a report critical of the encryption and password management functions deployed with Samsung’s Knox technology in its Android-based Galaxy and Note mobile devices. Last week, a researcher published an advisory that said a PIN chosen during setup of...

Code injection

CoreStorage in Apple OS X before 10.10 retains a volume's encryption keys upon an eject action in the unlocked state, which makes it easier for physically proximate attackers to obtain cleartext data via a remount...

Stealing Encryption Keys Just by Touching a Laptop

As far sci-fi movies have been entertaining the public, but their ideas have always been a matter of adoption in real life. Just like in any other sci-fi movie, simply touching a laptop can be enough to extract the cryptographic keys used to secure data stored on it. A team of computer security...