TrueCrypt 4.3 - Privilege Escalation Exploit

No description provided by source. $Id: raptortruecrypt,v 1.1.1.1 2007/04/04 11:31:56 raptor Exp $ raptortruecrypt - setuid truecrypt privilege escalation Copyright c 2007 Marco Ivaldi [email protected] TrueCrypt 4.3, when installed setuid root, allows local users to cause a denial of servic...

Crowdsourcing a Tool for Application Vulnerability Research

Pulling in security help on a project has traditionally meant either hiring more full-time help, or bringing in an outside consultant. Enterprises and vendors alike, however, are starting to really go outside the perimeter these days and are taking advantage of crowdsourcing. Given the paranoia i...

Threatpost News Wrap, June 23, 2014

Dennis Fisher and Mike Mimoso discuss the latest security news, including the possible fork of TrueCrypt, Microsoft’s new information sharing platform, the FBI’s cybercrime task force and the US team’s crushing tie with Portugal. Download: digitalunderground156.mp3 Music by Chris Gonsalves...

Possible TrueCrypt Fork in the Works

Although the developers behind the TrueCrypt encryption software have given up the ghost and decided to no longer maintain the application, interest in the project has never been higher. But, one of the developers says that a nascent effort to fork TrueCrypt is unlikely to succeed. Matthew Green,...

Audit Project Released Verified Repositories of TrueCrypt 7.1a

As the uncertainty surrounding the end of TrueCrypt continues, members of the security community are working to preserve a known-good archive of the last version of the open source encryption software released before the developers inserted a warning about potential unfixed bugs in the software a...

Crowdsourcing to be Part of Phase Two of TrueCrypt Audit

TrueCrypt may yet get forked, but it won’t come at the hands of the Open Crypto Audit Project OCAP, which has a working plan to move forward with a cryptanalysis of the open source encryption software. OCAP is the brand name for the grassroots movement that arose out of the ashes of the Snowden...

Of TrueCrypt and the Warrant Canary

Apple’s first transparency report, released last November, was one in a string of many released following the start of the Snowden leaks by technology companies trying to distance themselves from the tentacles of NSA surveillance. Apple’s report, however, contained two sentences that made it stan...

OpenSSL Receives Funding for Developers, Will Undergo Security Audit

Scarcely a month after announcing the formation of a group designed to help fund open source projects, the Core Infrastructure Initiative has decided to provide the OpenSSL Project with enough money to hire two full-time developers and also will fund an audit of OpenSSL by the Open Crypto Audit...

Popular Encryption Software TrueCrypt Shuts Down Mysteriously

TrueCrypt, the popular and reputed open source file and disk encryption Software for Windows, OSX and Linux, has abruptly closed down Wednesday recommending its users to use Microsoft's Bitlocker. TrueCrypt is a free, open-source and cross-platform encryption program, thereby one of the world's...

TrueCrypt Warns Software 'Not Secure,' Development Shut Down

Is it a hoax, or the end of the line for TrueCrypt? At the moment, there is little more than speculation as to the appearance today of an ominous note greeting visitors to the TrueCrypt page at SourceForge. The text warns that the open source encryption software is not secure and informs users th...

oclHashcat v1.20 - Worlds fastest password cracker

oclHashcat is a GPGPU-based multi-hash cracker using a brute-force attack implemented as mask attack, combinator attack, dictionary attack, hybrid attack, mask attack, and rule-based attack. This GPU cracker is a fusioned version of oclHashcat-plus and oclHashcat-lite. GPU Driver requirements: NV...

Cryptanalysis Remains for TrueCrypt Audit

Phase two of the TrueCrypt audit figures to be a labor-intensive, largely manual cryptanalysis, according to the two experts behind the Open Crypto Audit Project OCAP. Matthew Green, crypto expert and professor at Johns Hopkins University, said a small team of experts will have to, by hand, exami...

TrueCrypt is Secure; Encryption Tool cleared the First Phase of Security Audit

Is TrueCrypt Audited Yet? Yes, In Part! One of the world's most-used open source file encryption software trusted by tens of millions of users - TrueCrypt is being audited by a team of experts to assess if it could be easily exploited and cracked. Hopefully it has cleared the first phase of the...

First Phase of TrueCrypt Audit Turns Up No Backdoors

A initial audit of the popular open source encryption software TrueCrypt turned up fewer than a dozen vulnerabilities, none of which so far point toward a backdoor surreptitiously inserted into the codebase. A report on the first phase of the audit was released today by iSEC Partners, which was...

Passive Security Community Turned Activist

Security people like to call themselves a community, but until June some might say its greatest community achievement is turning Twitter into its own private and contentious echo chamber. But since the Snowden leaks, there’s been a palpable change and a marked swell in stand-taking. Tweeters have...

TrueCrypt Audit Team Creates Technical Advisory Board

As the TrueCrypt audit chugs along toward a deterministic, clean build of the open-source encryption software and a palatable license, the organizers have brought prominent security and legal experts aboard as a technical advisory team. The experts will not only provide guidance on the current...

TrueCrypt Open Source License Audit Bringing Clarity

The list of objectors to the TrueCrypt open source license is a long one and includes some popular distributions such as Debian, Fedora—and by extension Red Hat. In fact, the wrangling over the TrueCrypt license dates back as far as 2006, long before there were serious inquiries as to the...

TrueCrypt Audit Endorsed by Development Team

UPDATE — The effort to audit TrueCrypt, the open source encryption tool, received an important endorsement in the last week when a member of its anonymous development team reached out to the organizers of IsTrueCryptAuditedYet? “He wrote us a friendly but formal letter stating that they were happ...

Dennis Fisher and Mike Mimoso Discuss Truecrypt, iMessage Security and More

Dennis Fisher and Mike Mimoso discuss the big stories of the last couple of weeks, including the grassroots effort to audit the TrueCrypt source code, the Apple iMessage security model and Yahoo enabling SSL by default. Download: digitalunderground129.mp3...

TrueCrypt Audit to Answer Backdoor Question

The grassroots movement to audit TrueCrypt, the popular open source encryption tool, is gaining steam with tens of thousands of dollars already raised to fund the effort to not only professionally review the source code behind the tool, but also to legally review the custom license governing its...