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Facebook Conceal Java Crypto LIbrary Open Sourced
Facebook has released to open source its Conceal Java crypto libraries for Android devices. Conceal, according to Facebook, offers developers a lightweight and efficient crypto library. The social media giant developed Conceal to handle encryption of storage on removable SD cards, something that...
Google Chrome to encrypt Stored Cookies by default to enhance browser security
When you visit a website, it stores some information on your system through a web browser for later use i.e. Login information, so you do not have to re-login to your website every time you visit the same website on the same browser. Cookies are usually stored as plain text or in the database by...
PrisonLocker Ransomware Emerges From Criminal Underground
Security researchers from Malware Must Die uncovered new ransomware called PrisonLocker, and said the malware author is either a legitimate security researcher or is posing as one via a personal blog and Twitter handle. Malware Must Die has monitored PrisonLocker’s development since spotting it f...
Use of 3DES to Encrypt Stolen Target PIN Data Invites Worry
Target Corp.’s admission that encrypted PIN data was stolen in the Black Friday breach was bad news for consumers. For security experts, especially cryptographers, particular exception was taken to the retail giant’s use of Triple DES 3DES encryption to keep the PIN data safe. With all crypto...
Fedora 20 : libreswan-3.7-1.fc20 (2013-23250)
Security fix for CVE-2013-4564, extended AES-GCM and AES-CCM Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional...
Fedora 18 : libreswan-3.7-1.fc18 (2013-23299)
Security fix for CVE-2013-4564, extended AES-GCM and AES-CCM Improved Cisco interop, IKEv2 improvements, bugfixes Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it...
Fedora 19 : libreswan-3.7-1.fc19 (2013-23315)
Security fix for CVE-2013-4564, extended AES-GCM and AES-CCM support Improved Cisco interop, IKEv2 improvements, bugfixes Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and...
OpenSSH memory corruption
Memory corruption in AES-GCM implementation...
FreeBSD Security Advisory FreeBSD-SA-13:14.openssh
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 ============================================================================= FreeBSD-SA-13:14.openssh Security Advisory The FreeBSD Project Topic: OpenSSH AES-GCM memory corruption vulnerability Category: contrib Module: openssh Announced: 2013-11-19...
[slackware-security] openssh
New openssh packages are available for Slackware 14.1 and -current to fix a security issue. Here are the details from the Slackware 14.1 ChangeLog: patches/packages/openssh-6.4p1-i486-1slack14.1.txz: Upgraded. sshd8: fix a memory corruption problem triggered during rekeying when an AES-GCM cipher...
FreeBSD-SA-13:14.openssh
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 ============================================================================= FreeBSD-SA-13:14.openssh Security Advisory The FreeBSD Project Topic: OpenSSH AES-GCM memory corruption vulnerability Category: contrib Module: openssh Announced:...
openssh: security fix for remote code execution with AES-GCM (important)
openssh was updated to fix a memory corruption when AES-GCM is used which could lead to remote code execution after successful authentication. CVE-2013-4548...
Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-2014-1)
The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2013 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...
SuSE 11.2 / 11.3 Security Update : Mozilla NSS (SAT Patch Numbers 8484 / 8485)
"Mozilla NSS has been updated to 3.15.2 bnc847708 bringing various features and bugfixes : The main feature is TLS 1.2 support and its dependent algorithms. - Support for AES-GCM ciphersuites that use the SHA-256 PRF - MD2, MD4, and MD5 signatures are no longer accepted for OCSP or CRLs - Add...
SuSE 11.2 Security Update : Mozilla NSS (SAT Patch Number 8484)
"Mozilla NSS has been updated to 3.15.2 bnc847708 bringing various features and bugfixes : The main feature is TLS 1.2 support and its dependent algorithms. - Support for AES-GCM ciphersuites that use the SHA-256 PRF - MD2, MD4, and MD5 signatures are no longer accepted for OCSP or CRLs - Add...
OpenSSH 6.2 and 6.3 AES-GCM Cipher Memory Corruption
According to its banner, the version of OpenSSH running on the remote host is version 6.2 or 6.3. It is, therefore, affected by a memory corruption vulnerability in post-authentication when the AES-GCM cipher is used for the key exchange. Exploitation of this vulnerability could lead to arbitrary...
Microsoft Warns Customers Away From RC4, SHA-1
The RC4 and SHA-1 algorithms have taken a lot of hits in recent years, with new attacks popping up on a regular basis. Many security experts and cryptographers have been recommending that vendors begin phasing the two out, and Microsoft on Tuesday said that is now recommending to developers that...
Security Advisory 2868725: Recommendation to disable RC4
In light of recent research into practical attacks on biases in the RC4 stream cipher, Microsoft is recommending that customers enable TLS1.2 in their services and take steps to retire and deprecate RC4 as used in their TLS implementations. Microsoft recommends TLS1.2 with AES-GCM as a more secur...