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 -...

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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...

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...

kernel: security and bugfix update (important)

The Linux kernel was updated to fix various bugs and security issues: - mm/page-writeback.c: do not count anon pages as dirtyable memory reclaim stalls. - mm/page-writeback.c: fix dirtybalancereserve subtraction from dirtyable memory reclaim stalls. - compatsysrecvmmsg X32 fix bnc860993...

Facebook Conceal Java Crypto LIbrary Open Sourced

Facebook has released to open source its Conceal Java crypto libraries for Android devices. Conceal, according to Facebook, offers developers a lightweight and efficient crypto library. The social media giant developed Conceal to handle encryption of storage on removable SD cards, something that...

28% of Internet Users know the Importance of Online Privacy Tools

Privacy is “workings of your mind”. We share our personal moments captured in images, credit card details, thoughts that are personal or professional with a person or a certain group at different instances of time and want it to be safe and secure. We use an electronic gadget to share something...

WhatsApp Spam Campaing Leads to Banking Trojan

Spam emails promoting a non-existent PC version of the popular WhatsApp messaging service could be leading unsuspecting users to a malicious banking Trojan. The emails, written in Portuguese, trick the recipient into thinking they already have 11 pending friend invitations, according to Kaspersky...

Buffer overflow

Buffer overflow in srtp.c in libsrtp in srtp 1.4.5 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service crash via vectors related to a length inconsistency in the cryptopolicysetfromprofileforrtp and srtpprotect functions...

CVE-2013-2139

Buffer overflow in srtp.c in libsrtp in srtp 1.4.5 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service crash via vectors related to a length inconsistency in the cryptopolicysetfromprofileforrtp and srtpprotect functions...