CVE-2017-9758

Savitech driver packages for Windows silently install a self-signed certificate into the Trusted Root Certification Authorities store, aka "Inaudible Subversion."...

Session fixation

Savitech driver packages for Windows silently install a self-signed certificate into the Trusted Root Certification Authorities store, aka "Inaudible Subversion."...

CVE-2017-9758

Savitech driver packages for Windows silently install a self-signed certificate into the Trusted Root Certification Authorities store, aka "Inaudible Subversion."...

CVE-2017-2299

Versions of the puppetlabs-apache module prior to 1.11.1 and 2.1.0 make it very easy to accidentally misconfigure TLS trust. If you specify the sslca parameter but do not specify the sslcertsdir parameter, a default will be provided for the sslcertsdir that will trust certificates from any of the...

DEBIAN-CVE-2017-2299

Versions of the puppetlabs-apache module prior to 1.11.1 and 2.1.0 make it very easy to accidentally misconfigure TLS trust. If you specify the sslca parameter but do not specify the sslcertsdir parameter, a default will be provided for the sslcertsdir that will trust certificates from any of the...

UBUNTU-CVE-2017-2299

Versions of the puppetlabs-apache module prior to 1.11.1 and 2.1.0 make it very easy to accidentally misconfigure TLS trust. If you specify the sslca parameter but do not specify the sslcertsdir parameter, a default will be provided for the sslcertsdir that will trust certificates from any of the...

CVE-2017-2299

Versions of the puppetlabs-apache module prior to 1.11.1 and 2.1.0 make it very easy to accidentally misconfigure TLS trust. If you specify the sslca parameter but do not specify the sslcertsdir parameter, a default will be provided for the sslcertsdir that will trust certificates from any of the...

CVE-2017-2299

Versions of the puppetlabs-apache module prior to 1.11.1 and 2.1.0 make it very easy to accidentally misconfigure TLS trust. If you specify the sslca parameter but do not specify the sslcertsdir parameter, a default will be provided for the sslcertsdir that will trust certificates from any of the...

Gratipay: Missing Certificate Authority Authorization rule

Hi Team, Summary Certificate Authority Authorization supported by LetsEncrypt and other CAs allows a domain owner to specify which Certificate Authorities should be allowed to issue certificates for the domain. All CAA-compliant certificate authorities should refuse to issue a certificate unless...

Israeli Teen Accused of Running Bomb Threat Service Against Jewish Community Centers On Dark Web

By Waqas The authorities believe he is part of a larger bomb-threat-for-hire This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Israeli Teen Accused of Running Bomb Threat Service Against Jewish Community Centers On Dark Web...

Explained: security certificates

As a result of my PowerShell series 1,2,3, where I used the handling of certificates as an example, mainly because I wanted a method to keep track easier of which certificates were being added by malware, I've have received some questions about how security certificates work and how they stopped...

Microsoft to remove WoSign and StartCom certificates in Windows 10

Microsoft has concluded that the Chinese Certificate Authorities CAs WoSign and StartCom have failed to maintain the standards required by our Trusted Root Program. Observed unacceptable security practices include back-dating SHA-1 certificates, mis-issuances of certificates, accidental certifica...

Dark Web Users Suspect "Dream Market" Has Also Been Backdoored by Feds

By now you might be aware of the took down of two of the largest online dark websites—AlphaBay and Hansa—in what's being called the largest-ever international operation against the dark web's black market conducted by the FBI, DEA Drug Enforcement Agency and Dutch National Police. But the...

Feds Seize AlphaBay and Hansa Markets in Major Dark-Web Bust

It's finally confirmed — In a coordinated International operation, Europol along with FBI, DEA Drug Enforcement Agency and Dutch National Police have seized and taken down AlphaBay, one of the largest criminal marketplaces on the Dark Web. But not just AlphaBay, the law enforcement agencies have...

AlphaBay Shut Down After Police Raid; Alleged Founder Commits Suicide in Jail

AlphaBay Market — one of the largest Dark Web marketplaces for drugs, guns, and other illegal goods — that mysteriously went dark earlier this month without any explanation from its admins has reportedly been shut down by the international authorities. On July 4th, the dark web marketplace sudden...

Google Chrome Bans Chinese SSL Certificate Authorities WoSign and StartCom

As a punishment announced last October, Google will no longer trust SSL/TLS certificate authorities WoSign and its subsidiary StartCom with the launch of Chrome 61 for not maintaining the "high standards expected of CAs." The move came after Google was notified by GitHub's security team on August...

DNI Wants Research into Secure Multiparty Computation

The Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity IARPA is soliciting proposals for research projects in secure multiparty computation: Specifically of interest is computing on data belonging to different -- potentially mutually distrusting -- parties, which are unwilling or unable e.g., due t...

Two British Men Arrested For Hacking Microsoft

British police have arrested two men in the UK conspiring to hack into the computer networks of US tech giant Microsoft with plans to steal customers’ data from the software giant. The suspects — 22-year-old from Sleaford and a 25-year-old from Bracknell — were arrested by the detectives from the...

French Police Seize 6 Tor Relay Servers in WannaCry Investigation

WannaCry, the biggest ransomware attack in the history, gained prominence very rapidly in the media globally after the ransomware infected more than 300,000 computers in over 150 countries within just 72 hours. Governments, Intelligence agencies and law enforcement around the world have already...

Chrome Security Team Tackles 'Friendly Fire' To Keep Browser Safe

MIAMI— What is life like in the security trenches inside Google’s Chrome browser security team? From the perspective of Justin Schuh, lead engineer of Chrome Security, it’s balancing act where he has to juggle OEM pressures, questionable certificate authorities and quashing third-party software...