Signal is Most Secure Messenger, 'Useless Data' Obtained by FBI Proves It All

Do you trust your messaging app even though it uses end-to-end encryption? As I previously said end-to-end encryption doesn't mean that your messages are secure enough to hide your trace. It's because most of the messaging apps still record and store a lot of metadata on your calls and messages...

SUSE SLED12 / SLES12 Security Update : openssl (SUSE-SU-2016:2394-1)

This update for openssl fixes the following issues: OpenSSL Security Advisory 22 Sep 2016 bsc999665 Severity: High - OCSP Status Request extension unbounded memory growth CVE-2016-6304 bsc999666 Severity: Low - Pointer arithmetic undefined behaviour CVE-2016-2177 bsc982575 - Constant time flag no...

Signal Adds iPhone Access to Desktop App

Open Whisper Systems has long offered Android users of its encrypted messaging app a companion desktop version of the service. iPhone users haven’t been as lucky until Monday when the company announced desktop support for iPhone users of its Signal desktop beta app called Signal Private Messenger...

SUSE SLES12 Security Update : openssl (SUSE-SU-2016:2387-1)

This update for openssl fixes the following issues: OpenSSL Security Advisory 22 Sep 2016 bsc999665 Severity: High - OCSP Status Request extension unbounded memory growth CVE-2016-6304 bsc999666 Severity: Low - Pointer arithmetic undefined behaviour CVE-2016-2177 bsc982575 - Constant time flag no...

The vulnerabilities in operating systems such as Mac OS X and iOS allow attackers to replace the signal that indicates the end of transmission, or gain access to protected audio information.

The vulnerability of the FaceTime component in Mac OS X and iOS operating systems is related to the lack of protection for service data. Exploiting this vulnerability allows a malicious actor to replace the signal that indicates the end of transmission, or gain access to protected audio informati...

Bugs in Signal Messaging App Corrupt Attachments, Crash App

Makers of the mobile encrypted chat app Signal say they have fixed vulnerabilities in the Android version of the messaging app that allowed attackers to corrupt encrypted attachments and remotely crash the application. The vulnerabilities were discovered by Jean-Philippe Aumasson and Markus Vervi...

Using 'Signal' for Encrypted Chats? You Shouldn't Skip Its Next Update

Two Researchers have discovered a couple of vulnerabilities in Signal, the popular end-to-end encrypted messaging app recommended by whistleblower Edward Snowden. One of those vulnerabilities could allow potential attackers to add random data to the attachments of encrypted messages sent by Andro...

The vulnerability of Kaspersky Internet Security’s antivirus protection allows a hacker to trigger a service failure.

The vulnerability of the KL1 driver of Kaspersky’s antivirus protection software exists due to errors in the filtering of system calls. Exploiting this vulnerability can allow a local attacker to trigger a service failure using a specially crafted IOCTL signal...

The vulnerability of the Android operating system, which allows a hacker to increase their privileges

The vulnerability of the drivers/media/platform/msm/camerav2/isp/msmispstatsutil.c component of Qualcomm’s Android operating system is related to the lack of checks for certain index values. Exploiting this vulnerability can allow a remote attacker to increase their privileges through a specially...

Cisco Begins Patching Equation Group ASA Zero Day

Cisco today began the process of patching a zero-day vulnerability in its Adaptive Security Appliance ASA software exposed in the ShadowBrokers data dump. Users on affected versions of ASA, 7.2, and 8.0 through 8.7, are urged to migrate soon to 9.1.79 or later. Newer versions that are also...

SUSE-SU-2016:2090-1 Security update for apache2

This update for apache2 fixes the following issues: - It used to be possible to set an arbitrary $HTTPPROXY environment variable for request handlers -- like CGI scripts -- by including a specially crafted HTTP header in the request CVE-2016-5387. As a result, these server components would...

Facebook Messenger End-to-End Encryption Not On By Default

Facebook today began a test program rolling out opt-in end-to-end encryption for its Messenger service called Secret Conversations. The end-to-end encryption is based on the Signal protocol developed by Open Whisper Systems, the same protocol that stands up the crypto in the Signal and WhatsApp...

Facebook Messenger adds End-to-End Encryption (Optional) for Secret Conversations

Facebook has begun rolling out end-to-end encryption for its Messenger app, thus making its users' conversations completely private. The end-to-end encryption feature, dubbed "Secret Conversations," will allow Messenger users to send and receive messages in a way that no one, including the FBI wi...

librsvg2 out-of-bounds read vulnerability

librsvg2 is an SVG rendering engine written in C. It can be used to render a number of SVG files. An out-of-bounds read vulnerability exists in librsvg2. An attacker can exploit this vulnerability to cause an out-of-bounds read and segment error by sending the SIGSEGV signal...

Securing a travel iPhone

These are dry notes I took in the process of setting up a burner iPhone SE as a secure travel device. They are roughly in setup order. I believe iOS to be the most secure platform one can use at this time, but there are a lot of switches and knobs. This list optimizes for security versus...

Bruteforce BitCoin Wallet

The purpose of this program is to try to find the password of an encrypted Peercoin or Bitcoin, Litecoin, etc… wallet file i.e. wallet.dat. It can be used in two ways: try all the possible passwords given a charset try all the passwords in a file There is a command line option to specify the numb...

Huawei Mate 8 Information Disclosure Vulnerability

Huawei Mate 8 is a smartphone product of Chinese company Huawei Huawei. A security vulnerability exists in Huawei Mate 8. A remote attacker could exploit the vulnerability to obtain sensitive user signal strength information...

CVE-2016-5233

Huawei Mate 8 smartphones with software NXT-AL10 before NXT-AL10C00B182, NXT-CL00 before NXT-CL00C92B182, NXT-DL00 before NXT-DL00C17B182, and NXT-TL00 before NXT-TL00C01B182 allow remote base stations to obtain sensitive subscriber signal strength information via vectors involving improper...

CVE-2016-5233

Huawei Mate 8 smartphones with software NXT-AL10 before NXT-AL10C00B182, NXT-CL00 before NXT-CL00C92B182, NXT-DL00 before NXT-DL00C17B182, and NXT-TL00 before NXT-TL00C01B182 allow remote base stations to obtain sensitive subscriber signal strength information via vectors involving improper...

Apple hires Encryption Expert to Beef Up Security on its Devices

The FBI and other law enforcement agencies have waged legal war on encryption and privacy technologies. You may have heard many news stories about the legal battle between Apple and the FBI over unlocking an iPhone that belonged to the San Bernardino shooter. However, that was just one battle in ...