NIST removes Dual EC DRBG from SP 800-90A

The maligned Dual EC DRBG random number generator at the core of a $10 million secret contract between RSA Security and the National Security Agency has been removed from NIST’s draft guidance on random number generators. The National Institute for Standards and Technology said it will request...

Google Working On End-to-End Encryption for Gmail Service

Constant password breaches and Snowden revelations about Government Surveillance have raised many questions that why don’t cloud and email Services encrypt the data stored on their server? Revelations forced the popular Internet Giants such as Google and Yahoo to contemplate on the privacy and...

KisMAC - Free Sniffer/Scanner application for Mac OS X

KisMAC is an open-source and free sniffer/scanner application for Mac OS X. It has an advantage over MacStumbler / iStumbler / NetStumbler in that it uses monitor mode and passive scanning. KisMAC supports many third party USB devices: Intersil Prism2, Ralink rt2570, rt73, and Realtek rtl8187...

Cryptanalysis Remains for TrueCrypt Audit

Phase two of the TrueCrypt audit figures to be a labor-intensive, largely manual cryptanalysis, according to the two experts behind the Open Crypto Audit Project OCAP. Matthew Green, crypto expert and professor at Johns Hopkins University, said a small team of experts will have to, by hand, exami...

Ultra Crypto Component AcquireContext Buffer Overflow - Ver2 (CVE-2007-4903)

A buffer overflow vulnerability has been reported in Ultra Crypto Component. Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the affected system or cause application crashes...

Matthew Green on the NSA and Crypto Backdoors

Dennis Fisher talks with Matthew Green of Johns Hopkins University about the paper he co-authored on the Extended Random extension for Dual EC DRBG and whether it could be considered a backdoor. Download: digitalunderground149.mp3...

Ultra Crypto Component Insecure Method Directory traversal - Ver2 (CVE-2007-4902)

A directory traversal vulnerability has been reported on Ultra Crypto. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability via full pathnames in the argument to the SaveToFile method. Successful exploitation of this vulnerability would allow a remote attacker to overwrite arbitrary files on the affected...

New Platform Protects Data From Arbitrary Server Compromises

Researchers are in the midst of rolling out a secure new platform for building web applications that can protect confidential data from being stolen in the event attackers gain full access to servers. The platform, Mylar, is the result of a project spearheaded by students at the Massachusetts...

SeaMonkey Multiple Vulnerabilities-01 (Mar 2014) - Mac OS X

SeaMonkey is prone to multiple vulnerabilities. SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2014 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 CPE = "cpe:/a:mozilla:seamonkey"; ifdescription...

Mozilla Firefox Multiple Vulnerabilities-01 (Mar 2014) - Windows

Mozilla Firefox is prone to multiple vulnerabilities. SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2014 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 CPE = "cpe:/a:mozilla:firefox";...

CVE-2014-1498

The crypto.generateCRMFRequest method in Mozilla Firefox before 28.0 and SeaMonkey before 2.25 does not properly validate a certain key type, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service application crash via vectors that trigger generation of a key that supports the Elliptic Curve...

GnuTLS Bug Exposes Shortcomings in TLS Test Suites

Code audits are often ugly tasks and can sometimes find ugly things. Case in point: the GnuTLS goto bug. Chief architect and Red Hat engineer Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos initiated a code audit of the open source crypto library that eventually turned up last week’s critical bug. The bad code has been...

GnuTLS certificate verification security vulnerability found

GnuTLS, an open source SSL and TLS implementation used in hundreds of software packages including Red Hat desktop and server products and all Debian and Ubuntu Linux distributions, is the latest crypto package to improperly verify digital certificates as authentic. The vulnerability, discovered a...

Experts Urge Conservatism on Crypto Standards

SAN FRANCISCO–Security people are, by nature, cautious and methodical, and that is even more true of cryptographers. And in the current environment, when new adversaries seem to emerge on a daily basis and cryptographic standards are under intense scrutiny, a panel of some of the biggest names in...

RSA Conference 2014 Art Coviello RSA keynote

SAN FRANCISCO – RSA Security executive chairman Art Coviello today at RSA Conference 2014 made his first public comments about the security company’s relationship with the National Security Agency, painting the landmark firm as a victim of the spy agency’s blurring of the lines between its...

Pony Botnet steals $220,000 from multiple Digital Wallets

Are you the one of the Digital Currency Holder? PONY is after You. A Group of cyber criminals has used hundreds of thousands of infected computers of the digital currency holders to filch approximately $220,000 worth of Bitcoins and other virtual currencies. The researchers at the security firm,...

[SECURITY] [DSA 2858-1] iceweasel security update

------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian Security Advisory DSA-2858-1 [email protected] http://www.debian.org/security/ Moritz Muehlenhoff February 10, 2014 http://www.debian.org/security/faq -...

Debian Security Advisory DSA 2858-1 (iceweasel - several vulnerabilities)

Multiple security issues have been found in Iceweasel, Debian's version of the Mozilla Firefox web browser: Multiple memory safety errors, use-after-frees, too-verbose error messages and missing permission checks may lead to the execution of arbitrary code, the bypass of security checks or...

DSA-2858-1 iceweasel - several

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Debian: Security Advisory (DSA-2858-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the Debian SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2014 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...