Information Disclosure

elasticsearch is vulnerable to information disclosures. A malicious user can query the snapshot API to receive the accesskey and securitykey parameters in plaintext...

Google Employees Use a Physical Token as Their Second Authentication Factor

Krebs on Security is reporting that all 85,000 Google employees use two-factor authentication with a physical token. A Google spokesperson said Security Keys now form the basis of all account access at Google. "We have had no reported or confirmed account takeovers since implementing security key...

Titan Security Keys – Google launches its own USB-based FIDO U2F Keys

At Google Cloud Next '18 convention in San Francisco, the company has introduced Titan Security Keys—a tiny USB device, similar to Yubico's YubiKey, that offers hardware-based two-factor authentication for your online accounts with the highest level of protection against phishing attacks. These...

Titan Security Keys – Google launches its own USB-based FIDO U2F Keys

At Google Cloud Next '18 convention in San Francisco, the company has introduced Titan Security Keys —a tiny USB device, similar to Yubico's YubiKey, that offers hardware-based two-factor authentication for your online accounts with the highest level of protection against phishing attacks. These...

Google: Security Keys Neutralized Employee Phishing

Google has not had any of its 85,000+ employees successfully phished on their work-related accounts since early 2017, when it began requiring all employees to use physical Security Keys in place of passwords and one-time codes, the company told KrebsOnSecurity. A YubiKey Security Key made by...

XXE Vulnerability in JAVA SDK for Third-Party Payment Platforms

The third-party payment platform is an independent organization with certain strength and credibility guarantee, which adopts the way of contracting with major banks to provide a transaction support platform with the interface of the bank's payment and settlement system as the network payment mod...

Google’s ‘Advanced Protection’ Tools Trade Ease-of-Use for Security

Government officials and journalists who use Google services were the first to be invited to use advanced Gmail account security services announced Tuesday. Experts say it’s no security panacea, but tools provided under the Google banner called Advanced Protection empower any private Google users...

Enable Google's New "Advanced Protection" If You Don't Want to Get Hacked

It is good to be paranoid when it comes to cybersecurity. Google already provides various advanced features such as login alerts and two-factor authentication to keep your Google account secure. However, if you are extra paranoid, Google has just introduced its strongest ever security feature,...

Linux kernel denial of service vulnerability (CNVD-2017-30420)

The Linux kernel is a computer operating system kernel written in C and assembly language, compliant with the POSIX standard, and distributed under the GNU General Public License. Security/keys/keyctl.c in the Linux kernel does not take into account the combination of NULL payloads and...

kernel: NULL pointer dereference in keyring_search_aux function

The keyringsearchaux function in security/keys/keyring.c in the Linux kernel allows local users to cause a denial of service via a requestkey system call for the "dead" key type...

CVE-2017-6951

The keyringsearchaux function in security/keys/keyring.c in the Linux kernel through 3.14.79 allows local users to cause a denial of service NULL pointer dereference and OOPS via a requestkey system call for the "dead" type...

Google Adds Security Key Enforcement to G Suite Apps

Google on Wednesday pumped more life into the use of physical keys as a second form of authentication when it added Security Key enforcement support to G Suite. Admins inside enterprises managing deployments of the suite of cloud-based productivity apps, formerly known as Google Apps, can now...

Facebook Adds FIDO U2F Security Keys Feature For Secure Logins

Hacking password for a Facebook account is not easy, but also not impossible. We have always been advising you to enable two-factor authentication — or 2FA — to secure your online accounts, a process that requires users to manually enter, typically a six-digit secret code generated by an...

Linux kernel denial of service vulnerability (CNVD-2016-11669)

The Linux kernel is the kernel used by the operating system Linux, released by the Linux Foundation in the United States. A denial of service vulnerability exists in the security/keys/bigkey.c file in Linux kernel versions prior to 4.8.7. A local attacker can exploit this vulnerability to cause a...

Generate Security Keys warning on Storefront management console

Question:Is the warning to generate new security keys related to the Server certificate used for storefront base URL? Answer: No, this warning is not related to the server certificate used for storefront base URL. This indicates that the Self-Signed certificates generated by storefront are expire...

kernel security and bug fix update

3.10.0-327.28.2.OL7 - Oracle Linux certificates Alexey Petrenko 3.10.0-327.28.2 - net bridge: include in6.h in ifbridge.h for struct in6addr Jiri Benc 1331285 1268057 - net inet: defines IPPROTO needed for module alias generation Jiri Benc 1331285 1268057 - net sync some IP headers with glibc Jir...

Vulnerabilities in operating systems such as Mac OS X and iOS, which allow attackers to gain access to security keys

The vulnerability of operating systems Mac OS X and iOS is related to improper handling of access control lists for security keys. Exploiting this vulnerability allows a malicious actor, operating remotely, to gain access to security keys through a specially created application...

CVE-2015-8539

The KEYS subsystem in the Linux kernel before 4.4 allows local users to gain privileges or cause a denial of service BUG via crafted keyctl commands that negatively instantiate a key, related to security/keys/encrypted-keys/encrypted.c, security/keys/trusted.c, and security/keys/userdefined.c...

CVE-2016-0728

The joinsessionkeyring function in security/keys/processkeys.c in the Linux kernel before 4.4.1 mishandles object references in a certain error case, which allows local users to gain privileges or cause a denial of service integer overflow and use-after-free via crafted keyctl commands...

Command injection

The keygcunusedkeys function in security/keys/gc.c in the Linux kernel through 4.2.6 allows local users to cause a denial of service OOPS via crafted keyctl commands...