New Data Shows FBI Issued More Than 19k National Security Letters in 2013

The United States federal government issued more than 19,000 National Security Letters–perhaps its most powerful tool for domestic intelligence collection–in 2013, and those NSLs contained more than 38,000 individual requests for information. The new data was released by the Office of the Directo...

openSUSE Security Update : ca-certificates-mozilla (openSUSE-SU-2013:1891-1)

The Mozilla CA certificates package was updated to match the current Mozilla revision 1.95 of certdata.txt. It blacklists some misused certificate authorities, adds some new and adjusts some others. On openSUSE 13.1 a problem with names was also fixed. - distrust: AC DG Tresor SSL bnc854367 - new...

Mozilla Asks CAs for Details on Subordinate Certificate Controls

Mozilla has warned certificate authorities included in its root CA Certificate Program that they only have a few weeks left to comply with the company’s new policy, which requires CAs to adhere to the CA/Browser Forum Baseline Requirements and provide proof of audits of their subordinate...

AOL Breached, Investigating Spam from Spoofed Accounts

AOL reported today that it has been breached and urges users of its web-based email and other online services to change their passwords. AOL’s investigation of a breach of its internal network and systems is under way with the help of federal authorities and a forensics firm, the company said. La...

Certificate Revocation Slow on Heartbleed Web Servers

The rush to revoke and replace digital certificates on Heartbleed-vulnerable Web servers seems to be no rush at all. Internet research and security services firm Netcraft reports today that of the more than 500,000 servers it knows of that are running vulnerable versions of OpenSSL, only 80,000...

SuSE Update for ca-certificates-mozilla openSUSE-SU-2013:1870-1 (ca-certificates-mozilla)

Check for the Version of ca-certificates-mozilla OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $Id: gbsuse201318701.nasl 8672 2018-02-05 16:39:18Z teissa $ SuSE Update for ca-certificates-mozilla openSUSE-SU-2013:1870-1 ca-certificates-mozilla Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright C 2013 Greenbone...

openSUSE: Security Advisory for ca-certificates-mozilla (openSUSE-SU-2013:1870-1)

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...

openSUSE: Security Advisory for ca-certificates-mozilla (openSUSE-SU-2013:1891-1)

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 Update for ca-certificates-mozilla openSUSE-SU-2013:1891-1 (ca-certificates-mozilla)

Check for the Version of ca-certificates-mozilla OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $Id: gbsuse201318911.nasl 8650 2018-02-03 12:16:59Z teissa $ SuSE Update for ca-certificates-mozilla openSUSE-SU-2013:1891-1 ca-certificates-mozilla Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright C 2013 Greenbone...

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...

Belgian Telco Belgacom Compromised

A Belgian telecom company that handles some of the undersea cables that carry international voice traffic said Monday that its internal network had been compromised sometime in the last few months and malware had planted on some of its systems. Belgacom said the attack only affected its own...

Google, Mozilla Considering Limiting Certificate Validity to 60 Months

In the wake of a parade of problems with certificate authorities and attackers using stolen digital certificates, both Google and Mozilla are poised to enforce new rules in their browsers for how long end-entity certificates should be trusted. The changes will begin taking effect at the beginning...

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...

Juniper IVE OS Unintentionally Trusted Certificate Authorities

According to its self-reported version, the version of IVE OS running on the remote host has an insecure SSL configuration. Internal and development Certificate Authorities CAs used by Juniper during testing were mistakenly included and explicitly trusted in public releases of IVE OS. A...

Japanese Poker champion charged for distributing Android malware

Famous poker player 'Masaaki Kagawa' who won about $1.5 million in poker tournaments has been arrested by Japanese authorities for allegedly distributing Android malware. According to Symantec, He is just one of nine men arrested for distributing spam that included emails with links to Android...

Oracle Linux 4 : seamonkey (ELSA-2006-0734 / ELSA-2006-0676)

Updated seamonkey packages that fix several security bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4. This update has been rated as having critical security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team. SeaMonkey is an open source Web browser, advanced email and newsgroup client, IRC chat...

Three LulzSec hackers pleads guilty To NHS, Sony Attacks

Three members of the high profile internet hacktivist group LulzSec have admitted to their parts in a series of cyber attacks against the NHS, Sony and News International. Ryan Ackroyd, Jake Davis and Mustafa Al-Bassam, pleaded guilty to one charge of carrying out an unauthorized act to impair th...

Zendesk security breach, "We've been hacked"

Customer service software provider Zendesk announced a security breach, that affected three major Zendesk clients i.e Tumblr, Pinterest and Twitter and allowed hackers into their systems. The hacks come just days after Apple ,Twitter and Facebook revealed that their employees computers fell victi...

Zendesk security breach, "We've been hacked"

Customer service software provider Zendesk announced a security breach, that affected three major Zendesk clients i.e Tumblr, Pinterest and Twitter and allowed hackers into their systems. The hacks come just days after Apple ,Twitter and Facebook revealed that their employees computers fell victi...

CAs Form New Alliance to Focus on Security Issues, Education

A group of large certificate authorities, including some that have been the victims of recent compromises of their CA systems, have formed an alliance designed to develop strategies for strengthening the CA infrastructure through education and industry initiatives. Comodo, DigiCert, Entrust,...