Google Recommends Developers Support OAuth 2.0

Google announced today that in the coming months it will be more stringent in securing users when they log in to their accounts by applying additional authorization checks. “These additional checks will ensure that only the intended user has access to their account, whether through a browser,...

IRTF Chair Refuses Removal of NSA Employee as Co-Chair of Crypto Working Group

An NSA employee who is the co-chairman of a cryptography working group affiliated with the IETF will remain in that position despite calls from members to have him removed. The chairman of the Internet Research Task Force, the body that oversees the research group, rejected requests for the remov...

New IETF Group to Tackle TLS Implementation in Applications

The NSA surveillance scandal has created ripples all across the Internet, and the latest one is a new effort from the IETF to change the way that encryption is used in a variety of critical application protocols, including HTTP and SMTP. The new TLS application working group was formed to help...

[SECURITY] Fedora 20 Update: gnutls-3.1.16-1.fc20

GnuTLS is a project that aims to develop a library which provides a secure layer, over a reliable transport layer. Currently the GnuTLS library implem ents the proposed standards by the IETF's TLS working group...

[SECURITY] Fedora 19 Update: gnutls-3.1.15-1.fc19

GnuTLS is a project that aims to develop a library which provides a secure layer, over a reliable transport layer. Currently the GnuTLS library implem ents the proposed standards by the IETF's TLS working group...

IETF Discussing Ways to Protect Internet Against Pervasive Surveillance

The IETF is considering a range of options to help reengineer some of the fundamental protocols that underpin the Internet in response to revelations that the NSA and other intelligence agencies are conducting widespread, dragnet-style surveillance online. The group, which is responsible for...

[SECURITY] Fedora 17 Update: gnutls-2.12.23-2.fc17

GnuTLS is a project that aims to develop a library which provides a secure layer, over a reliable transport layer. Currently the GnuTLS library implem ents the proposed standards by the IETF's TLS working group...

[SECURITY] Fedora 18 Update: gnutls-2.12.23-1.fc18

GnuTLS is a project that aims to develop a library which provides a secure layer, over a reliable transport layer. Currently the GnuTLS library implem ents the proposed standards by the IETF's TLS working group...

Simple Certificate Enrollment Protocol (SCEP) does not strongly authenticate certificate requests

Overview Simple Certificate Enrollment Protocol SCEP does not strongly authenticate certificate requests made by users or devices. Update March 19, 2025: Solution section has been updated. Description IETF Internet-Draft draft-nourse-scep-23 "...defines a protocol, Simple Certificate Enrollment...

LLMNR Spoofer

LLMNR Link-local Multicast Name Resolution is the successor of NetBIOS Windows Vista and up and is used to resolve the names of neighboring computers. This module forges LLMNR responses by listening for LLMNR requests sent to the LLMNR multicast address 224.0.0.252 and responding with a...

Moxie Marlinspike on TACK, Convergence and Trust Agility

Dennis Fisher talks with Moxie Marlinspike about his new IETF proposal, TACK, which lays out a way for sites to assert the authenticity of their public keys. They also discuss the Convergence system for replacing the CA infrastructure and the ways in which browser vendors can help enable better...

[SECURITY] Fedora 16 Update: gnutls-2.12.14-2.fc16

GnuTLS is a project that aims to develop a library which provides a secure layer, over a reliable transport layer. Currently the GnuTLS library implem ents the proposed standards by the IETF's TLS working group...

dns-nsid NSE Script

Retrieves information from a DNS nameserver by requesting its nameserver ID nsid and asking for its id.server and version.bind values. This script performs the same queries as the following two dig commands: - dig CH TXT bind.version @target - dig +nsid CH TXT id.server @target References: 1 2...

Quotation Mark Parsing Flaw Makes IE Users Vulnerable to Attack

A bug in Microsoft’s Internet Explorer has left users of the popular browser vulnerable to cross-site scripting attacks, according to researchers at the security firm Imperva Data Security. The flaw stems from an error in the way double quotes are encoded by IE. According to Imperva’s Rob Rachwal...

Apache Plans Range Header Bug Fix in Next Day

The Apache Software Foundation plans to have a fix available in the next day or so for the denial-of-service problem in Apache that was publicized late last week. The bug, which in some forms has been under discussion for more than four years, involves the way that the Web server handles certain...

Fedora Update for libsmi FEDORA-2010-17104

Check for the Version of libsmi OpenVAS Vulnerability Test Fedora Update for libsmi FEDORA-2010-17104 Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright c 2010 Greenbone Networks GmbH, http://www.greenbone.net This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the ter...

[SECURITY] Fedora 13 Update: libsmi-0.4.8-5.fc13

Libsmi is a C library to access MIB module information through a well defined API that hides the nasty details of locating and parsing SMIv1/v2 MIB modules. This package contains tools to check, dump, and convert MIB definitions and a steadily maintained and revised archive of all IETF and IANA...

[SECURITY] Fedora 14 Update: libsmi-0.4.8-5.fc14

Libsmi is a C library to access MIB module information through a well defined API that hides the nasty details of locating and parsing SMIv1/v2 MIB modules. This package contains tools to check, dump, and convert MIB definitions and a steadily maintained and revised archive of all IETF and IANA...

Crafted ICMP Messages Can Cause Denial of Service - Cisco Systems

A document that describes how the Internet Control Message Protocol ICMP could be used to perform a number of Denial of Service DoS attacks against the Transmission Control Protocol TCP has been made publicly available. This document has been published through the Internet Engineering Task Force...

Password Protocol OAuth Gets New Variant

The developers behind the OAuth protocol have developed a new variant called OAuth WRAP that is simpler and easier to implement. It’s a stop-gap solution that will enable broader OAuth adoption while OAuth 2.0, the next generation of the specification, is devised by a working group that is...