Small Number of Malicious Tor Exit Relays Snooping Traffic

A small number of Tor exit relays are misbehaving, conducting man-in-the-middle attacks and monitoring encrypted traffic from users of the anonymity network. Researchers from Karlstad University in Sweden published a paper this week examining the malicious behavior of some Tor exit relays and fou...

Medium: nss

Issue Overview: It was found that a subordinate Certificate Authority CA mis-issued an intermediate certificate, which could be used to conduct man-in-the-middle attacks. This update renders that particular intermediate certificate as untrusted. Affected Packages: nss Issue Correction: Run yum...

EMC Data Protection Advisor DPA Illuminator EJBInvokerServlet Remote Code Execution

EMC Data Protection Advisor DPA Illuminator EJBInvokerServlet Remote Code Execution tested against: Microsoft Windows Server 2008 r2 sp1 EMC Data Protection Advisor 5.8 sp5 vulnerability: the "DPA Illuminator" service DPAIlluminator.exe listening on public port 8090 tcp/http and 8453 tcp/https is...

How to Create a Better Malware Warning Through Psychology

It turns out the best way to get people to pay attention to those malware warnings that pop up in browsers may be to stop tweaking them, scrap them entirely and rebuild from scratch. According to a study on the subject published last week, efficient malware warnings shouldn’t scare users away, th...

SuSE 11.2 / 11.3 Security Update : openssl-certs (SAT Patch Numbers 8681 / 8682)

openssl-certs was updated with the current certificate data available from mozilla.org. Changes : - Updated certificates to revision 1.95 Distrust a sub-ca that issued google.com certificates. 'Distrusted AC DG Tresor SSL'. bnc854367 Many CA updates from Mozilla : - new:...

MGASA-2014-0006 Updated firefox and thunderbird packages fix security vulnerabilities

Several flaws were found in the processing of malformed web content. A web page containing malicious content could cause Firefox or Thunderbird to terminate unexpectedly or, potentially, execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running Firefox or Thunderbird CVE-2013-5609,...

Updated firefox and thunderbird packages fix security vulnerabilities

Several flaws were found in the processing of malformed web content. A web page containing malicious content could cause Firefox or Thunderbird to terminate unexpectedly or, potentially, execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running Firefox or Thunderbird CVE-2013-5609,...

Coca-Cola reserved 16 Million MAC addresses to race in The Internet of Things

Have you seen the Coca-Cola "Freestyle" soda fountain yet? Instead of levers for different sodas, you have got a touchscreen, interface like an iPad and with a Push button you can have 127 Flavors of sodas. There are more than 3,500 such machines are installed inside the world’s Burger Kings and...

Scientific Linux Security Update : nss on SL5.x, SL6.x i386/x86_64 (20131219)

It was found that a subordinate Certificate Authority CA mis-issued an intermediate certificate, which could be used to conduct man-in-the-middle attacks. This update renders that particular intermediate certificate as untrusted. Note: This fix only applies to applications using the NSS Builtin...

CentOS Update for ca-certificates CESA-2013:1866 centos6

Check for the Version of ca-certificates OpenVAS Vulnerability Test CentOS Update for ca-certificates CESA-2013:1866 centos6 Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright C 2013 Greenbone Networks GmbH, http://www.greenbone.net This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or...

CentOS Update for nss CESA-2013:1861 centos6

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...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-2063-1)

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...

RedHat Update for ca-certificates RHSA-2013:1866-01

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...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : nss (MDVSA-2013:301)

A vulnerability has been discovered and corrected in mozilla NSS : Google notified Mozilla that an intermediate certificate, which chains up to a root included in Mozillas root store, was loaded into a man-in-the-middle MITM traffic management device. This certificate was issued by Agence nationa...

RHEL 6 : ca-certificates (RHSA-2013:1866)

An updated ca-certificates package that fixes one security issue is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6. The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having moderate security impact. This package contains the set of CA certificates chosen by the Mozilla Foundation for use...

CentOS 5 / 6 : nss (CESA-2013:1861)

Updated nss packages that fix one security issue are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and 6. The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having moderate security impact. Network Security Services NSS is a set of libraries designed to support the cross-platform...

Oracle Linux 6 : ca-certificates (ELSA-2013-1866)

From Red Hat Security Advisory 2013:1866 : An updated ca-certificates package that fixes one security issue is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6. The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having moderate security impact. This package contains the set of CA certificate...

U.S. District Court Judge Rules NSA Metadata Collection Likely Violates Fourth Amendment

A United States District Court judge has ruled that the bulk metadata collection program maintained by the National Security Agency for years now likely is unconstitutional. The judge, ruling on a pair of law suits that claimed the NSA’s methods violated users’ privacy and civil rights, said that...

PHP 5.4.x < 5.4.23 OpenSSL openssl_x509_parse() Memory Corruption

According to its banner, the version of PHP 5.4.x installed on the remote host is a version prior to 5.4.23. It is, therefore, potentially affected by a memory corruption flaw in the way the opensslx509parse function of the PHP OpenSSL extension parsed X.509 certificates. A remote attacker could...

ca-certificates-mozilla: add, remove or blacklist some certificates (important)

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:...