What is Certificate Transparency? How It helps Detect Fake SSL Certificates

Do you know there is a huge encryption backdoor still exists on the Internet that most people don't know about? I am talking about the traditional Digital Certificate Management System… the weakest link, which is completely based on trust, and it has already been broken several times. To ensure t...

'Hacking Team' Loses License to Sell Surveillance Malware Outside Europe

Hacking Team – the infamous Italy-based spyware company that had more than 400 GB of its confidential data stolen last year – is facing another trouble. This time not from other hackers, but from its own government. Hacking Team is infamous for selling surveillance spyware to governments and...

Google Debuts New Untrusted CA Log Submariner

Google wants the internet to know that it’s keeping track of deployed certificates, whether they’re trusted or not. While the search behemoth has long maintained a list of trusted Certificate Authorities, it announced on Monday that it has created a new list of CAs that were once, or are not yet...

Linode Customer Password Reset, DDoS Attack

Cloud-based webhost Linode absorbed another body blow on Tuesday when it said it was resetting customer passwords after a suspected breach. The development compounded the company’s existing woes as it continues to battle a distributed denial-of-service attack that began on Christmas. A Linode...

Encrypted Email Servers Seized by German Authorities After School Bomb Threats

In the wake of a hoax bomb threat, all public schools in Los Angeles were closed for a day last week, and now German authorities have seized an encrypted email server. But, Does that make sense? In a video statement posted on Monday, the administrator of Cock.li – an anonymous email provider...

Police Raid alleged Bitcoin Creator Craig Wright's Home in Sydney

Just hours after the Australian man 'Craig Steven Wright' outed as the possible real identity of Satoshi Nakamoto, the anonymous creator of Bitcoin, Australian Police raided his home in Sydney. Over 10 police officers raided Wright's home in the Sydney suburbs on Wednesday afternoon. They...

Dutch Police Arrest Alleged CoinVault Ransomware Authors

Ransomware has emerged as major threat to consumers and businesses in recent years, and law enforcement agencies and security researchers have taken note. Authorities last year disrupted the Cryptolocker ransomware operation and now Dutch police have arrested two young men they believe are involv...

foreman: lack of SSL certificate validation when performing LDAPS authentication

It was found that when making an SSL connection to an LDAP authentication source in Foreman, the remote server certificate was accepted without any verification against known certificate authorities, potentially making TLS connections vulnerable to man-in-the-middle attacks...

Cyber UL Could Become Reality Under Leadership of Hacker Mudge

UPDATE–One of the longstanding problems in security–and the software industry in general–is the lack of any universally acknowledged authority on quality and reliability. But the industry moved one step closer to making such a clearinghouse a reality this week when Peiter Zatko, a longtime...

Congress Looking Into Restricting Power of Government-Owned CAs

UPDATE–As the debate over potential government interference with encryption technologies rages in countries around the world, Congress is now going down a different path, asking technology companies whether it’s feasible and potentially effective for certificate authorities to restricting the way...

tor-consensus-checker NSE Script

Checks if a target is a known Tor node. The script works by querying the Tor directory authorities. Initially, the script stores all IPs of Tor nodes in a lookup table to reduce the number of requests and make lookups quicker. Script Arguments slaxml.debug See the documentation for the slaxml...

Multiple SSL certificate authorities use predefined email addresses as proof of domain ownership

Overview Multiple SSL certificate authorities may issue certificates to a customer based solely on the control of certain email addresses. This may allow an attacker to obtain a valid SSL certificate to perform HTTPS spoofing without generating a warning in the client software. Description When a...

openSUSE Security Update : tor (openSUSE-2015-261)

Tor was updated to 0.2.4.26 to fix several security issues : The release: Contains several medium-level security fixes for relays and exit nodes and also updates the list of directory authorities. - Directory authority updates - relay crashes trough assertion CVE-2015-2688 - exit node crash throu...

Komodia Certificate Manipulation Enabled Man-In-The-Middle Attacks

The shoddy state of SSL certificate validation on the Internet again floated to the surface, this time by the Superfish mess, which continues to get worse. The Electronic Frontier Foundation on Wednesday released a report based on data scoured from the Decentralized SSL Observatory which it...

USN-2509-1 ca-certificates update

The ca-certificates package contained outdated CA certificates. This update refreshes the included certificates to those contained in the 20141019 package...

Morgan Stanley Insider Theft Wealth Management Client Data

The financial services giant Morgan Stanley announced yesterday that that an employee had stolen sensitive information pertaining to more than 900 of the firm’s wealth-management clients. According to a company press release, the wealth management employee in question “has been terminated.”...

Tor Network Is Under Attack through Directory Authority Servers Seizures

Tor has been targeted once again, but this time at a much larger scale. A new attack on Tor network reportedly would either completely shut it down worldwide or turn it into evil network. This time Tor – an internet browser which allows people to maintain their anonymity online by protecting thei...

Tor Project Warns of Possible Upcoming Attack on Network

The Tor Project is warning that an unnamed attacker is planning to try to cripple the network by seizing directory authorities, the servers that help Tor clients find Tor relays in the network. Tor officials said that the network right now is still safe to use, and also emphasized that they are...

SSL Custom CA Setup

Configure the loading of the certificate authorities for SSL validation. This will load the Tenable-managed default certificate authorities and allow Nessus users to load custom certificate authorities. Multiple custom CA files are available to help with the management of custom certificate...

Suspected Wirelurker iOS Malware Creators Arrested in China

It’s been almost two weeks since the WireLurker malware existence was revealed for the first time, and Chinese authorities have arrested three suspects who are allegedly the authors of the Mac- and iOS-based malware that may have infected as many as hundreds of thousands of Apple users. The Beiji...