Twitter Denies Intelligence Community Fire Hose Access Via Dataminr

A Twitter business partner, whose service sifts through Twitter’s so-called fire hose of tweets as well as data from other sources to ascertain patterns in breaking news events, has been told to no longer provide its services to the U.S. intelligence community. The Wall Street Journal on Sunday...

British Authorities Order Hacker Lauri Love to hand Over Encryption Keys

The National Crime Agency NCA of United Kingdom is forcing the British citizen, and political hacktivist Lauri Love accused of hacking to hand over encryption keys to equipment seized from his home. Love, 31, is currently fighting extradition to the United States where he faces up to 99 years in...

China Passes Anti-Terrorism Law; Here's What You Need to Know

If you rely on encrypted services to keep your data private and, unfortunately, you are in China, then you are about to be worried. As of now Chinese government could snoop into the operations of technology companies as well as circumvent privacy protections in everyday gadgets. China So-called...

France wants to BAN Tor and Free Wi-Fi Services after Paris Terror Attacks

Now this was to be done, Sooner or Later – The Government. In the wake of the recent deadly Paris terror attacks, the French government is considering new laws that would Ban access to Free Wi-Fi and the Tor anonymity network, according to a recent report by French newspaper Le Monde. The report...

LastPass Vault Decryptor

This module extracts and decrypts LastPass master login accounts and passwords, encryption keys, 2FA tokens and all the vault passwords This module requires Metasploit: https://metasploit.com/download Current source: https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework require 'English' require 'sqlite...

CVE-2007-2727

The mcryptcreateiv function in ext/mcrypt/mcrypt.c in PHP before 4.4.7, 5.2.1, and possibly 5.0.x and other PHP 5 versions, calls phprandr with an uninitialized seed variable and therefore always generates the same initialization vector IV, which might allow context-dependent attackers to decrypt...

Western Digital Self-Encrypting Drives Vulnerable

Some consumer-grade, self-encrypting external hard drives are littered with security vulnerabilities that render their encryption an afterthought. An academic paper published in late September took apart a number of drives manufactured by Western Digital that suffer from flaws that are trivial to...

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...

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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...

CVE-2015-6846

EMC SourceOne Email Supervisor prior to version 7.2 contains hardcoded encryption keys, enabling an attacker to gain access by inspecting cryptographic operations in the program. This CVE (CVE-2015-6846) is documented in multiple feeds (NVD, CVE listings) with a common description of hardcoded ke...

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...