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The ca-certificates package contained outdated CA certificates.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...

Mozilla Begins Phasing Out Support for SHA-1 Hash Algorithm

Mozilla has joined the chorus of browser makers and technology companies no longer throwing their support behind the shaky SHA-1 hash algorithm. Long considered vulnerable to attack, SHA-1 is already on hackers’ collective to-do list with experts predicting collision attacks practical within four...

Google 'Sunsetting' Weak SHA-1 Crypto Algorithm

Google announced Friday it will begin the process of phasing out the obsolete SHA-1 cryptographic hash algorithm with the upcoming release of version 39 of the company’s Chrome browser in November. After the November release, Chrome will no longer fully trust sites whose certificate chains trust...

Mozilla to Support Key Pinning in Firefox 32

Mozilla is planning to add support for public-key pinning in its Firefox browser in an upcoming version. In version 32, which would be the next stable version of the browser, Firefox will have key pins for a long list of sites, including many of Mozilla’s own sites, all of the sites pinned in...

[DLA 17-1] tor: new upstream version

Package : tor Version : 0.2.4.23-1deb6u1 The Tor version previously in Debian squeeze, 0.2.2.39, is no longer supported by upstream. This update brings the currently stable version of Tor, 0.2.4.23, to Debian squeeze. Changes include use of stronger cryptographic primitives, always clearing bignu...

Google Constrains India CCA Root Cert in Wake of Bad Google and Yahoo Certificates

The Indian Controller of Certifying Authorities said that the certificate-issuance process for the National Informatics Centre of India, which issued several fraudulent certificates recently, which were blocked by Google, has been compromised and Google has decided to constrain India CCA’s root...

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...