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,...

CVE-2012-4948

The default configuration of Fortinet Fortigate UTM appliances uses the same Certification Authority certificate and same private key across different customers' installations, which makes it easier for man-in-the-middle attackers to spoof SSL servers by leveraging the presence of the...

PT-2012-6133 · Lynx · Lynx

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Lynx affected versions not specified Description: The issue is related to Lynx not verifying that the server's certificate is signed by a trusted certification authority. This allows man-in-the-middle attackers to spoof SSL servers via a...

US authorities : Iranian Hackers are Becoming a Real Pain

The U.S. have admitted they believe a series of cyber attacks on domestic banks and some foreign oil companies carried out over the last year are the handy work of a group of hackers linked to the Iranian government. Defence Secretary Leon Panetta said the cyberthreat from Iran has grown, and...

SSL Digital Certificate Security Issues Put CAs on Notice

It’s been a rough couple of years for the security of fundamental Internet infrastructure technologies such the domain name system DNS, SSL and digital certificates. Hackers are taking aim at these core technologies at the heart of ecommerce and online communication, and are more often than not,...

Researchers Pull the Plug on Remaining Grum Botnet C&C Servers

Just a couple of days after authorities in the Netherlands pulled the plug on two of the four command-and-control servers behind the Grum spam botnet, the remaining C&C servers have been taken offline as well, thanks to a cooperative effort among researchers. As a result, the number of...

Vulnerability in core server (CVE-2012-0867)

SSL certificate name checks are truncated to 32 characters, allowing connection spoofing under some circumstances when using third party certificate authorities...

Dutch Authorities Knock Out Grum Botnet C&C Servers

Dutch authorities have knocked out two of the command-and-control servers for one of the top spam-producing botnets, known as Grum. The action was not a complete knockout though, as there are still two other C&C servers at work, but researchers are optimistic that the volume of spam will drop as ...

Microsoft Unauthorized Digital Certificates Spoofing Vulnerability (2728973)

This host is installed with Microsoft Windows operating system and is prone to Spoofing vulnerability. OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $Id: gbmsunauthdigitalcertspoofingvuln.nasl 8323 2018-01-08 14:50:05Z gveerendra $ Microsoft Unauthorized Digital Certificates Spoofing Vulnerability 2728973 Authors:...

Assange's Asylum In The Balance, Researcher Warns Ecuador's Deliberations Are Vulnerable To Online Snooping

With Wikileaks founder Julian Assange anxiously awaiting word from the government of Ecuador on his request for political asylum, a security researcher warns that the country’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, which is handling the Assange asylum request, is using a video conferencing system that is...

Researchers Unveil New Way to Trust Certificates

Two independent researchers are proposing an extension for TLS to provide greater trust in certificate authorities, which have become a weak link in the entire public key infrastructure after some big breaches involving fraudulent SSL certificates. TACK, short for Trust Assertions for Certificate...

90% SSL sites vulnerable to the BEAST SSL attack

90% of the Internet's top 200,000 HTTPS-enabled websites are vulnerable to known types of SSL Secure Sockets Layer attack, according to a report released Thursday by the Trustworthy Internet Movement TIM, a nonprofit organization dedicated to solving Internet security, privacy and reliability...

Mozilla Proposes Change to Handling of Subordinate CA Certificates

Mozilla is considering a change to the way that it handles certificates issued by externally operated sub-CAs in an effort to gain more control of how these CAs issue certificates and what those certificates can do. The proposal would involve some new controls to help verify that certificates are...

Trojan Dropper Uses Valid Certificate Issued For Swiss Company

A pair of trojan droppers affiliated with a pay-per-click scam are using valid digital signatures from a certificate that was issued for a Swiss company, according to a report on Securelist. Between December 2011 and March 7, 2012, the Kaspersky Security Network has detected around 5,000 instance...

BBC Persia Hacked, Points Finger at Iran

The BBC reports that they were the victim of a “sophisticated cyber-attack,” which they believe is part of an ongoing Iranian campaign to disrupt the BBC Persian Service. The attack reportedly coincides with attempts to jam of the BBC’s satellite feeds into the Islamic republic. “We regard the...

Mandriva Update for postgresql MDVSA-2012:026 (postgresql)

Check for the Version of postgresql OpenVAS Vulnerability Test Mandriva Update for postgresql MDVSA-2012:026 postgresql Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright c 2012 Greenbone Networks GmbH, http://www.greenbone.net This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modif...

Anonymous deface National Consumer and Federal Trade Commission sites against #ACTA

Anonymous deface National Consumer sites & Federal Trade Commission sites against ACTA Today, Anonymous Hackers deface multiple National Consumer websites over ACTA, the protests and hactivism continues against ACTA - 'The Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement' is a proposed plurilateral agreement...

What You Need to Know About the RSA Key Research

It’s always slightly disorienting and confusing when a story about something as esoteric as weak encryption keys produced by poor random number generators makes its way into the real world and begins scaring the citizens. This can lead to confusion and worry about whether everyone’s online bankin...