Passive Security Community Turned Activist

Security people like to call themselves a community, but until June some might say its greatest community achievement is turning Twitter into its own private and contentious echo chamber. But since the Snowden leaks, there’s been a palpable change and a marked swell in stand-taking. Tweeters have...

How Dark Mail Plans to Build an Open, Secure Email Platform

The new Dark Mail Alliance formed this week by Lavabit and Silent Circle will offer an open platform for secure email that will use existing protocols and cloud storage as a way to evade surveillance. The new system, which should be available next year, is in some ways a throwback to the...

'Dark Mail Alliance', Future of surveillance proof email technology

Yesterday I learned about 'Dark Mail Alliance', where Lavabit, reportedly an email provider for NSA leaker Edward Snowden and Silent Circle comes together to create a surveillance-proof email technology. Ladar Levison at Lavabit and Silent Circle CEO Mike Janke, Founders of two e-mail services th...

NSA Crypto Questions Resemble a 'Hall of Mirrors'

There’s been no shortage of discussion and debate in recent week about the possibility that the NSA has intentionally weakened some cryptographic algorithms and cipher suites in order to give it an advantage in its intelligence-gathering operations. If you subscribe to the worst-case scenario lin...

Silent Circle Moving Away From NIST Ciphers in Wake of NSA Revelations

The first major domino to fall in the crypto world after the NSA leaks by Edward Snowden began was the decision by Lavabit, a secure email provider, to shut down in August rather than comply with a government order. Shortly thereafter, Silent Circle, another provider of secure email and other...

Anonymity Tool Tor gains more than 1.2 Million new users since NSA PRISM scandal

Since Snowden came forward with details about the NSA's PRISM program in June, web users concerned about online privacy are increasingly turning toward privacy tools to protect their online data. U.S. Government project PRISM allows the government to tap phone calls, email, and web browsing of an...

Inside the Decision to Shut Down Silent Mail

Silent Circle’s decision to shut down its Silent Mail email service may have come quickly yesterday, and the timing of the announcement admittedly was prompted by Lavabit’s decision to suspend operations hours before. But the seeds for this decision may have been sown long before Edward Snowden,...

Encrypted Email Service 'Lavabit' abruptly shut down under U.S. Government Pressure

Texas-based Encrypted Email Service 'Lavabit' abruptly shut down for reasons linked to National Security Agency whistleblower Edward Snowden. The Feds want to Lavabit demanding access to Ed Snowden's email. Lavabit refused! Snowden was using the Lavabit service while holed-up in the Moscow airpor...

Encrypted Email Service 'Lavabit' abruptly shut down under U.S. Government Pressure

Texas-based Encrypted Email Service 'Lavabit' abruptly shut down for reasons linked to National Security Agency whistleblower Edward Snowden. The Feds want to Lavabit demanding access to Ed Snowden's email. Lavabit refused! Snowden was using the Lavabit service while holed-up in the Moscow airpor...

Several Flaws Discovered in ZRTPCPP Library Used in Secure Phone Apps

A security researcher has uncovered a number of serious vulnerabilities in one of the core security components of several secure telephony applications, including the Silent Circle system developed by PGP creator Phil Zimmermann. The vulnerabilities in the GNU ZRTPCPP library already have been...

Jieqi(Jackie)CMS V1. 6 PHP code execution 0day vulnerabilities EXP-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

Jackie website management system, referred to as the JIEQI CMS, China National copyright Bureau copyright registration number: 2006SR03382 is a modular site erected system with simple, flexible, superior performance, safe and reliable and other characteristics. We provide you with the current mos...

Phil Zimmermann on Mobile Encryption and Privacy

Dennis Fisher talks with cryptographer and PGP inventor Phil Zimmermann about the specter of mobile eavesdropping, his new venture Silent Circle and how the threat landscape has changed in recent years. Download: digitalunderground110 Related: Phil Zimmermann: ‘We Really, Really Don’t Have the...

Phil Zimmermann: 'We Really, Really Don't Have the Keys'

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico–Phil Zimmermann has seen more changes in the the threat landscape in his career than he may care to remember. The inventor of the PGP encryption software and one of the key movers in the crypto wars of the early 1990s, Zimmermann is back in the game now with a new mobile...

Open-Realty 2.5.8 Cross Site Request Forgery

OVERVIEW Open-Realty 2.5.8 and lower versions are vulnerable to Cross Site Request Forgery. 2. BACKGROUND Open-Realty is the world's leading real estate listing marketing and management CMS application, and has enjoyed being the real estate web site software of choice for professional web site...

Phil Zimmermann Returns With Silent Circle Voice and Data Privacy

If you use encryption products to protect your data or communications, you owe a debt of gratitude to Phil Zimmermann. Now, Zimmermann is aiming to collect on that debt with his new company, Silent Circle, a startup that will provide secure phone, email and SMS communications. Zimmermann has been...

Adobe SVG Viewer Circle Transform Remote Code Execution

The version of Adobe SVG Viewer on the remote host has a remote code execution vulnerability. A remote attacker could exploit this by tricking a user into requesting a maliciously crafted web page, resulting in arbitrary code execution. C Tenable Network Security, Inc. include"compat.inc"; if...

Photos

Pictures can be private, embarrassing or personal. Consider who should see them and, more importantly, who shouldn’t. The “friends” groups we just created are most important for your pictures. Let’s look at creating photo albums and securing them… Click on your name, then the Photos tab, then +...

Grouping friends

To group your friends, click on Friends up top. Then Friends in the left column. Then Create New List assuming this is your first one. If you are adding people, then click on the list you want to edit and then “Edit List.” You’ll be offerred a list of your friends. Clicking on their picture will...

Stack overflow

Multiple stack-based buffer overflows in mimetex.cgi in mimeTeX, when downloaded before 20090713, allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a TeX file with long 1 picture, 2 circle, or 3 input tags...

CVE-2009-1382

Multiple stack-based buffer overflows in mimetex.cgi in mimeTeX, when downloaded before 20090713, allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a TeX file with long 1 picture, 2 circle, or 3 input tags...