Security update for MozillaFirefox, mozilla-nss (important)

This update to Mozilla Firefox 47 fixes the following issues boo983549: Security fixes: - CVE-2016-2815/CVE-2016-2818: Miscellaneous memory safety hazards boo983638 MFSA 2016-49 - CVE-2016-2819: Buffer overflow parsing HTML5 fragments boo983655 MFSA 2016-50 - CVE-2016-2821: Use-after-free deletin...

CloudFlare Deploys ChaCha20-Poly1305 Encryption Across Sites

After rolling out free SSL for its users last fall, CloudFlare has deployed a new level of encryption on its service that hardens and speeds up the user experience, especially when accessing domains via mobile browsers. The form of encryption, a relatively new transport layer cipher suite known a...

Boasting Better Encryption, Bug Fixes, OpenSSH 6.5 Released

The OpenBSD Project pushed out a new build on Thursday of the OpenSSH security suite, adding a new private key format, a new transport cipher and fixing 15 bugs in the Secure Shell. OpenSSH version 6.5 adds support for the key exchange using elliptic-curve Diffie Hellman within cryptographer Dani...