Troubling Cracks Showing in Internet's Security Foundation

The revelation last week that researchers Thai Duong and Juliano Rizzo had developed a new attack on SSL that gives them the ability to decrypt some protected sessions on the fly sparked a lot of discussions about the inherent problems of the protocol and whether it has outlived its usefulness. B...

Fedora Update for pidgin FEDORA-2011-11595

Check for the Version of pidgin OpenVAS Vulnerability Test Fedora Update for pidgin FEDORA-2011-11595 Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright c 2011 Greenbone Networks GmbH, http://www.greenbone.net This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the ter...

Fedora Update for openssl FEDORA-2011-12281

Check for the Version of openssl OpenVAS Vulnerability Test Fedora Update for openssl FEDORA-2011-12281 Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright c 2011 Greenbone Networks GmbH, http://www.greenbone.net This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the...

[SECURITY] Fedora 14 Update: pidgin-2.10.0-1.fc14

Pidgin allows you to talk to anyone using a variety of messaging protocols including AIM, MSN, Yahoo!, Jabber, Bonjour, Gadu-Gadu, ICQ, IRC, Novell Groupwise, QQ, Lotus Sametime, SILC, Simple and Zephyr. These protocols are implemented using a modular, easy to use design. To use a protocol, just...

[SECURITY] Fedora 15 Update: pidgin-2.10.0-1.fc15

Pidgin allows you to talk to anyone using a variety of messaging protocols including AIM, MSN, Yahoo!, Jabber, Bonjour, Gadu-Gadu, ICQ, IRC, Novell Groupwise, QQ, Lotus Sametime, SILC, Simple and Zephyr. These protocols are implemented using a modular, easy to use design. To use a protocol, just...

PDD - Packet Dump Decode Released

PDD - Packet Dump Decode Released PDD is an open-source program created by Srivats.Packet Dump Decode pdd is a simple convenient GUI wrapper around the Wireshark/Ethereal tools to convert packet hexdumps into well formatted xml containing the decoded protocols and protocol contents.You need to...

ASPR #2011-08-18-2: Remote Binary Planting in Mozilla Thunderbird

=====BEGIN-ACROS-REPORT===== PUBLIC ========================================================================= ACROS Security Problem Report 2011-08-18-2 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- ASPR 2011-08-18-2: Remote Binary Planting in Mozilla Thunderbird...

broadcast-listener NSE Script

Sniffs the network for incoming broadcast communication and attempts to decode the received packets. It supports protocols like CDP, HSRP, Spotify, DropBox, DHCP, ARP and a few more. See packetdecoders.lua for more information. The script attempts to sniff all ethernet based interfaces with an IP...

CentOS Update for openssl CESA-2009:0004 centos4 i386

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2011 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription scriptxrefname:"URL",...

CentOS Update for curl CESA-2009:1209 centos5 i386

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2011 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription scriptxrefname:"URL",...

CentOS Update for httpd CESA-2009:1580 centos4 i386

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2011 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

CentOS Update for bind CESA-2009:0020 centos3 i386

Check for the Version of bind OpenVAS Vulnerability Test CentOS Update for bind CESA-2009:0020 centos3 i386 Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright c 2011 Greenbone Networks GmbH, http://www.greenbone.net This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under t...

CentOS Update for bind97 CESA-2011:0926 centos5 i386

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2011 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription scriptxrefname:"URL",...

CentOS Update for bind CESA-2009:0020 centos3 i386

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2011 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription scriptxrefname:"URL",...

CentOS Update for gnutls CESA-2010:0166 centos5 i386

Check for the Version of gnutls OpenVAS Vulnerability Test CentOS Update for gnutls CESA-2010:0166 centos5 i386 Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright c 2011 Greenbone Networks GmbH, http://www.greenbone.net This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it und...

Android Passwords are stored in plain text on Disk

Android Passwords are stored in plain text on Disk A Android user complain that , All passwords are stored in plane text on Disk via a message on discussion board of Android. He said "The password for email accounts is stored into the SQLite DB which in turn stores it on the phone's file system i...

[SECURITY] Fedora 15 Update: bind-9.8.0-7.P4.fc15

BIND Berkeley Internet Name Domain is an implementation of the DNS Domain Name System protocols. BIND includes a DNS server named, which resolves host names to IP addresses; a resolver library routines for applications to use when interfacing with DNS; and tools for verifying that the DNS server ...

[SECURITY] Fedora 14 Update: pidgin-2.9.0-1.fc14

Pidgin allows you to talk to anyone using a variety of messaging protocols including AIM, MSN, Yahoo!, Jabber, Bonjour, Gadu-Gadu, ICQ, IRC, Novell Groupwise, QQ, Lotus Sametime, SILC, Simple and Zephyr. These protocols are implemented using a modular, easy to use design. To use a protocol, just...

CentOS 5 : bind97 (CESA-2011:0926)

"Updated bind and bind97 packages that fix one security issue are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and 6. The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having important security impact. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severit...

RedHat Update for bind RHSA-2011:0926-01

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2011 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription scriptxrefname:"URL",...