How to Crack RC4 Encryption in WPA-TKIP and TLS

Security researchers have developed a more practical and feasible attack technique against the RC4 cryptographic algorithm that is still widely used to encrypt communications on the Internet. Despite being very old, RC4 Rivest Cipher 4 is still the most widely used cryptographic cipher implemente...

Vulnerability Forces Mozilla to Disable Opportunistic Encryption in Firefox

Less than a week after introducing the new opportunistic encryption feature in Firefox, Mozilla has had to disable it because of a security vulnerability in the browser’s implementation of the HTTP Alternative Services specification. The bug puts a kink in the new feature, which was designed to...

DLA-170-1 mod-gnutls - security update

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Apple Implements Email Encryption For iCloud

Apple quietly began encrypting virtually all of the email flowing in and out of its servers for its iCloud.com, mac.com and me.com domains, a move that throws up an important roadblock for attackers and others attempting to snoop on those transmissions. The change from Apple comes as security...

Google Data Shows Encryption Trending In the Right Direction

The past year has seen a tremendous amount of change and turbulence in the security and privacy communities, much of it related to the NSA surveillance revelations. One of the things that has come out of all of the discussions and debates is a greater focus on the importance of encryption,...

ssl-heartbleed NSE Script

Detects whether a server is vulnerable to the OpenSSL Heartbleed bug CVE-2014-0160. The code is based on the Python script ssltest.py authored by Katie Stafford [email protected] Script Arguments ssl-heartbleed.protocols default tries all TLS 1.0, TLS 1.1, or TLS 1.2 tls.servername See the...

Twitter enables StartTLS for Secure Emails to prevent Snooping

TWITTER is taking users' privacy and security very seriously and in an effort to prevent Government snooping, the company has secured your Twitter emails with with TLS Transport Layer Security. Twitter emails were previously using a plain text communication protocol, that now has been upgraded to...

Fedora 20 : imapsync-1.584-1.fc20 (2014-2505)

1.584 - Enhancement: Added --minmaxlinelength to select messages with long lines only. It helps to diagnostic Echange error on messages with lines longer than 9000 characters - Enhancement: Added --debugmaxlinelength - Bug fix: --ssl1 --tls2 was buggy because of default SSLVERIFYPEER. 'Can not go...

EE BrightBox Router Vulnerabilities Exposed

Leave it to a software test engineer to be thorough about his home networking gear. Scott Helme, an engineer in the U.K., likes to take a close look at traffic coming and going from new devices installed at his home. Recently, he signed up for fiber service from Everything Everywhere, an ISP in t...

Twitter Implements Perfect Forward Secrecy

Twitter took another step toward not only securing the privacy of its users’ communication over the social network, but in warding off the prying eyes of government surveillance with the implementation of Perfect Forward Secrecy. The technology thwarts the efforts of anyone who may be collecting...

Samba 3.x < 3.6.20 / 4.0.x < 4.0.11 / 4.1.x < 4.1.1 Multiple Vulnerabilities

According to its banner, the version of Samba running on the remote host is 3.x prior to 3.6.20 or 4.0.x prior to 4.0.11 or 4.1.x prior to 4.1.1. It is, therefore, potentially affected by multiple vulnerabilities : - A security bypass vulnerability may exist because Samba does not properly enforc...

Private key in key.pem world readable

Description Due to incorrect directory and file permissions a local attacker might obtain the private key that is used for the SSL/TLS encryption for ldaps including STARTTLS on ldap and https network traffic. The attacker is then able to decrypt encrypted network traffic which may contain...

Oracle Linux 3 / 4 : fetchmail (ELSA-2007-0018)

From Red Hat Security Advisory 2007:0018 : Updated fetchmail packages that fix two security issues are now available. This update has been rated as having moderate security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team. Fetchmail is a remote mail retrieval and forwarding utility. A denial of servi...

Oracle Linux 5 / 6 : cyrus-imapd (ELSA-2011-0859)

The remote Oracle Linux 5 / 6 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ELSA-2011-0859 advisory. 2.3.16-6.2 - do not use strict aliasing 2.3.16-6.1 - fix CVE-2011-1926: STARTTLS plaintext command injection vulnerability Tenable has extracted the precedi...

CRIME vulnerability via the SPDY protocol CVE-2012-4930

The SPDY protocol 3, and earlier, can perform TLS encryption of compressed data without properly obfuscating the length of the unencrypted data. This allows man-in-the-middle attackers to obtain plain text HTTP headers by observing length differences during a series of guesses in which a string i...

SOL14059 - CRIME vulnerability via the SPDY protocol CVE-2012-4930

The SPDY protocol 3, and earlier, can perform TLS encryption of compressed data without properly obfuscating the length of the unencrypted data. This allows man-in-the-middle attackers to obtain plain text HTTP headers by observing length differences during a series of guesses in which a string i...

CVE-2012-4930

The SPDY protocol 3 and earlier, as used in Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, and other products, can perform TLS encryption of compressed data without properly obfuscating the length of the unencrypted data, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to obtain plaintext HTTP headers by observing...

Design/Logic Flaw

The SPDY protocol 3 and earlier, as used in Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, and other products, can perform TLS encryption of compressed data without properly obfuscating the length of the unencrypted data, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to obtain plaintext HTTP headers by observing...

CVE-2012-4930

The SPDY protocol 3 and earlier, as used in Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, and other products, can perform TLS encryption of compressed data without properly obfuscating the length of the unencrypted data, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to obtain plaintext HTTP headers by observing...

CVE-2012-4930

The SPDY protocol 3 and earlier, as used in Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, and other products, can perform TLS encryption of compressed data without properly obfuscating the length of the unencrypted data, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to obtain plaintext HTTP headers by observing...