Matthew Green on Crypto Advances, the BREACH Attack and Whether the Longevity of the RSA Algorithm

Dennis Fisher talks with Matthew Green of Johns Hopkins University about the crypto advances in recent years, the BREACH attack revealed at Black Hat and whether it’s time to start moving away from the RSA algorithm. Download: digitalunderground121 Subscribe to the Digital Underground podcast on...

BREACH decodes HTTPS encrypted data in 30 seconds

A new hacking technique dubbed BREACH can extract login tokens, session ID numbers and other sensitive information from SSL/TLS encrypted web traffic in just 30 seconds. The technique was demonstrated at the Black Hat security conference in Las Vegas Presentation PDF & Paper by Gluck along with...

BREACH decodes HTTPS encrypted data in 30 seconds

A new hacking technique dubbed BREACH can extract login tokens, session ID numbers and other sensitive information from SSL/TLS encrypted web traffic in just 30 seconds. The technique was demonstrated at the Black Hat security conference in Las Vegas Presentation PDF & Paper by Gluck along with...

Experts Urge ECC crytpo over RSA algorithm

LAS VEGAS – Cryptographic breakthroughs have accelerated in the past six months in areas such as discrete logarithm computations that lead experts to believe that breaking the stalwart RSA algorithm may be in the not-too-distant future. A team of crypto experts today at Black Hat USA 2013 present...

Fedora Update for nodejs-sha FEDORA-2013-11780

Check for the Version of nodejs-sha OpenVAS Vulnerability Test Fedora Update for nodejs-sha FEDORA-2013-11780 Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright c 2013 Greenbone Networks GmbH, http://www.greenbone.net This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under...

OpenAFS security vulnerabilities

Weak enbcryption algorithm...

Autocad DWG-AC1021 Heap Corruption

AutoCAD is a software for computer-aided design CAD and technical drawing in 2D/3D, being one of the world leading CAD design tools. It is developed and sold by Autodesk, Inc. Title: AutoCAD DWG-AC1021 Heap Corruption CVE Name: CVE-2013-3665 Permalink:...

[SECURITY] Fedora 18 Update: nodejs-sha-1.0.1-4.fc18

Check and get file hashes using MD5, SHA1, or any other algorithm supported by OpenSSL...

[SECURITY] Fedora 18 Update: nodejs-hawk-0.15.0-1.fc18

Hawk is an HTTP authentication scheme using a message authentication code MAC algorithm to provide partial HTTP request cryptographic verification...

Ubuntu Forums Password Breach Exposes 1.8 Million Users

Every username, password and email address used by members of the Ubuntu Forums was accessed in a breach reported on Saturday by the free Linux distribution. More than 1.82 million accounts stored in the forums’ database were stolen, according to a notice posted on the forums’ home page Saturday...

Chinese Hackers discovered second Android master key vulnerability

Android Security Squad, the China-based group that uncovered a second Android master key vulnerability that might be abused to modify smartphone apps without breaking their digital signatures. The whole point of digitally signing a document or file is to prove the file hasn't been modified. The...

Oracle Linux 5 / 6 : Unbreakable Enterprise kernel (ELSA-2011-2033)

The remote Oracle Linux 5 / 6 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2011-2033 advisory. - ipv6: make fragment identifications less predictable Joe Jin CVE-2011-2699 - vlan: fix panic when handling priority tagged frames Joe Jin...

Oracle Linux 5 : openssl (ELSA-2010-0054)

The remote Oracle Linux 5 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2010-0054 advisory. - fix CVE-2009-2409 - drop MD2 algorithm from EVP tables 510197 Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Oracle Linux...

Oracle Linux 5 / 6 : Unbreakable Enterprise kernel (ELSA-2012-2047)

The remote Oracle Linux 5 / 6 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2012-2047 advisory. - mm/hotplug: correctly add new zone to all other nodes zone lists Jiang Liu Orabug: 16020976 Bug-db: 14798 CVE-2012-5517 - Divide by zero in TCP...

Oracle Linux 5 / 6 : Unbreakable Enterprise kernel (ELSA-2012-2048)

The remote Oracle Linux 5 / 6 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2012-2048 advisory. - ext4: fix undefined behavior in ext4fillflexinfo Xi Wang orabug 16020245 CVE-2012-2100 - Divide by zero in TCP congestion control Algorithm Jespe...

Oracle Linux 3 : libtiff (ELSA-2008-0863)

From Red Hat Security Advisory 2008:0863 : Updated libtiff packages that fix a security issue are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1 and 3. This update has been rated as having important security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team. The libtiff packages contain a library of...

ESA-2013-029: RSA SecurID Sensitive Information Disclosure Vulnerability

EMC Identifier: ESA-2013-029 CVE Identifier: CVE-2013-0941 Severity Rating: CVSS v2 Base Score: 6.8 AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C Affected Products: RSA Authentication API versions prior to 8.1 SP1 RSA Web Agent for Apache Web Server versions prior to 5.3.5 RSA Web Agent for IIS versions prior to...

apache-cxf: XML encryption backwards compatibility attacks

Apache CXF 2.5.x before 2.5.10, 2.6.x before CXF 2.6.7, and 2.7.x before CXF 2.7.4 does not verify that a specified cryptographic algorithm is allowed by the WS-SecurityPolicy AlgorithmSuite definition before decrypting, which allows remote attackers to force CXF to use weaker cryptographic...

CentOS 5 : php53 (CESA-2012:1047)

Updated php53 packages that fix multiple security issues are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having moderate security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base scores, which give detailed severity ratings, are...

CentOS 5 : java-1.6.0-openjdk (CESA-2009:1584)

Updated java-1.6.0-openjdk packages that fix several security issues are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. This update has been rated as having important security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team. These packages provide the OpenJDK 6 Java Runtime Environment and the OpenJD...