Cryptography Expert Says, 'PGP Encryption is Fundamentally Broken, Time for PGP to Die'

A Senior cryptography expert has claimed multiple issues with PGP email encryption - an open source end-to-end encryption to secure email. Before continuing, I would like to clarify that covering this topic doesn't mean you should stop using PGP encryption, instead we are bringing to you what...

Trio of Flaws Haunts OleumTech Wireless Monitoring System

Researchers have identified several remotely exploitable vulnerabilities in a wireless remote monitoring product from OleumTech that is used in energy, water and other critical infrastructure sectors. Two of the three flaws are related to the encryption implementation in the affected products,...

[SECURITY] Fedora 19 Update: gnupg2-2.0.24-1.fc19

GnuPG is GNU's tool for secure communication and data storage. It can be used to encrypt data and to create digital signatures. It includes an advanced key management facility and is compliant with the proposed OpenPGP Internet standard as described in RFC2440 and the S/MIME standard as described...

[SECURITY] Fedora 20 Update: gnupg2-2.0.24-1.fc20

GnuPG is GNU's tool for secure communication and data storage. It can be used to encrypt data and to create digital signatures. It includes an advanced key management facility and is compliant with the proposed OpenPGP Internet standard as described in RFC2440 and the S/MIME standard as described...

OleumTech WIO Family Vulnerabilities

OVERVIEW This updated advisory is a follow-up to the original advisory titled ICSA-14-202-01 OleumTech WIO Family Vulnerabilities that was published July 21, 2014, on the NCCIC/ICS-CERT web site. --------- Begin Update A Part 1 of 2 -------- Security researchers Lucas Apa and Carlos Mario Penagos...

Fedora Update for easy-rsa FEDORA-2014-2869

Check for the Version of easy-rsa OpenVAS Vulnerability Test Fedora Update for easy-rsa FEDORA-2014-2869 Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright C 2014 Greenbone Networks GmbH, http://www.greenbone.net This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the...

Fedora Update for easy-rsa FEDORA-2014-2804

Check for the Version of easy-rsa OpenVAS Vulnerability Test Fedora Update for easy-rsa FEDORA-2014-2804 Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright C 2014 Greenbone Networks GmbH, http://www.greenbone.net This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the...

[SECURITY] Fedora 20 Update: easy-rsa-2.2.2-1.fc20

This is a small RSA key management package, based on the openssl command line tool, that can be found in the easy-rsa subdirectory of the OpenVPN distribution. While this tool is primary concerned with key management for the SSL VPN application space, it can also be used for building web...

[SECURITY] Fedora 19 Update: easy-rsa-2.2.2-1.fc19

This is a small RSA key management package, based on the openssl command line tool, that can be found in the easy-rsa subdirectory of the OpenVPN distribution. While this tool is primary concerned with key management for the SSL VPN application space, it can also be used for building web...

Facebook releases 'Conceal' API for Android developers to Encrypt data on Disk

Many Smartphone applications support, installation or app data storage to an external SD Card, that can be helpful in saving space on the internal memory, but also vulnerable to hackers. Typically, an app that has permission to read and write data from an SD card has the permission to read all da...

[SECURITY] Fedora 18 Update: gnupg-1.4.16-2.fc18

GnuPG GNU Privacy Guard is a GNU utility for encrypting data and creating digital signatures. GnuPG has advanced key management capabilities and is compliant with the proposed OpenPGP Internet standard described in RFC2440. Since GnuPG doesn't use any patented algorithm, it is not compatible with...

[SECURITY] Fedora 19 Update: gnupg-1.4.16-2.fc19

GnuPG GNU Privacy Guard is a GNU utility for encrypting data and creating digital signatures. GnuPG has advanced key management capabilities and is compliant with the proposed OpenPGP Internet standard described in RFC2440. Since GnuPG doesn't use any patented algorithm, it is not compatible with...

[SECURITY] Fedora 18 Update: gnupg2-2.0.22-1.fc18

GnuPG is GNU's tool for secure communication and data storage. It can be used to encrypt data and to create digital signatures. It includes an advanced key management facility and is compliant with the proposed OpenPGP Internet standard as described in RFC2440 and the S/MIME standard as described...

Fedora Update for gnupg FEDORA-2013-18676

Check for the Version of gnupg OpenVAS Vulnerability Test Fedora Update for gnupg FEDORA-2013-18676 Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright c 2013 Greenbone Networks GmbH, http://www.greenbone.net This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms...

[SECURITY] Fedora 19 Update: gnupg2-2.0.22-1.fc19

GnuPG is GNU's tool for secure communication and data storage. It can be used to encrypt data and to create digital signatures. It includes an advanced key management facility and is compliant with the proposed OpenPGP Internet standard as described in RFC2440 and the S/MIME standard as described...

[SECURITY] Fedora 19 Update: gnupg2-2.0.22-1.fc19

GnuPG is GNU's tool for secure communication and data storage. It can be used to encrypt data and to create digital signatures. It includes an advanced key management facility and is compliant with the proposed OpenPGP Internet standard as described in RFC2440 and the S/MIME standard as described...

[SECURITY] Fedora 20 Update: gnupg2-2.0.22-1.fc20

GnuPG is GNU's tool for secure communication and data storage. It can be used to encrypt data and to create digital signatures. It includes an advanced key management facility and is compliant with the proposed OpenPGP Internet standard as described in RFC2440 and the S/MIME standard as described...

[SECURITY] Fedora 19 Update: gnupg-1.4.15-1.fc19

GnuPG GNU Privacy Guard is a GNU utility for encrypting data and creating digital signatures. GnuPG has advanced key management capabilities and is compliant with the proposed OpenPGP Internet standard described in RFC2440. Since GnuPG doesn't use any patented algorithm, it is not compatible with...

[SECURITY] Fedora 20 Update: gnupg-1.4.15-1.fc20

GnuPG GNU Privacy Guard is a GNU utility for encrypting data and creating digital signatures. GnuPG has advanced key management capabilities and is compliant with the proposed OpenPGP Internet standard described in RFC2440. Since GnuPG doesn't use any patented algorithm, it is not compatible with...

CVE-2013-5008

The CVE-2013-5008 issue affects Symantec Management Platform (Altiris) Agent/Task Agent in versions 7.0 and 7.1 prior to 7.1 SP2 MP1.1v7 rollup. The root cause is a single registry-entry encryption key shared across different customer installations, enabling a local user to access package-server ...