How NSA successfully Broke Trillions of Encrypted Connections

Yes, it seems like the mystery has been solved. We are aware of the United States National Security Agency NSA powers to break almost unbreakable encryption used on the Internet and intercept nearly Trillions of Internet connections – thanks to the revelations made by whistleblower Edward Snowden...

The vulnerability of the Cisco IOS operating system, which allows a perpetrator to gain unauthorized access to the device

The vulnerability of the SSHv2 component in Cisco IOS systems is related to deficiencies in the authentication process. Exploiting this vulnerability allows a malicious actor to gain unauthorized access to a device by manipulating information about known user names and their associated RSA keys...

ntp, ntpdate security update

CentOS Errata and Security Advisory CESA-2015:1459 Updated ntp packages that fix multiple security issues, several bugs, and add two enhancements are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having Moderate security impact. Common Vulnerabili...

Crypto Leaders: 'Exceptional Access' Will Undo Security

A powerhouse baker’s dozen of cryptography experts and pioneers have released a paper explaining the potential legal and ethical issues relative to the government’s continued insistence on access to cryptographic keys that secure communication over the Internet. The paper, called “Keys Under...

Audit of GitHub SSH Keys Finds Many Still Vulnerable to Old Debian Bug

An audit of the SSH keys associated with more than a million GitHub accounts shows that some users have weak, easily factorable keys and many more are using keys that are still vulnerable to the Debian OpenSSL bug disclosed seven years ago. The public SSH keys that users associate with their GitH...

WordPress Slimstat Plugin <= 3.9.5 - SQL Injections

This plugin is prone to weak cryptographic keys leading to SQL injections. Solution Update the plugin...

CVE-2014-5403

Hospira MedNet before 6.1 uses hardcoded cryptographic keys for protection of data transmission from infusion pumps, which allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information by sniffing the network...

Hardcoded credentials

Hospira MedNet before 6.1 uses hardcoded cryptographic keys for protection of data transmission from infusion pumps, which allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information by sniffing the network...

CVE-2014-5403

Summary (CVE-2014-5403) Hospira MedNet before 6.1 uses hard-coded cryptographic keys to protect data transmission from infusion pumps, enabling remote attackers to obtain sensitive information by sniffing network traffic. Affected software: MedNet server software (pre-6.1). Underlying issue: hard...

WP Slimstat <= 3.9.5 - Weak Cryptographic Keys Leading to SQL Injections

The Slimstat Analytics WordPress plugin was affected by a Weak Cryptographic Keys Leading to SQL Injections security vulnerability...

Debian-OpenSSL-Predictable-PRNG

OpenSSL 0.9.8c-1 up to versions before 0.9.8g-9 on Debian-based operating systems uses a random number generator that generates predictable numbers, which makes it easier for remote attackers to conduct brute force guessing attacks against cryptographic keys...

Patched Code-Execution Bug Affects Most Android Users

A serious code-execution vulnerability in Android 4.3 and earlier was patched in KitKat, the latest version of the operating system. Researchers at IBM this week disclosed the nature of the vulnerability, which was privately disclosed to the Android Security Team in September and patched last...

IETF To Mitigate Pervasive Monitoring In Future Protocols

The Internet Engineering Task Force IETF has defined pervasive monitoring, otherwise known as unwarranted surveillance and analysis of Internet traffic and even the subversion of cryptographic keys, as an attack and wants future versions of IETF-sponsored protocols to be designed to mitigate it...

NSA denies Report that Agency knew and exploited Heartbleed Vulnerability

The Bloomberg claimed that the U.S. National Security Agency NSA knew about the most critical Heartbleed flaw and has been using it on a regular basis to gather “critical intelligence” and sensitive information for at least past two years and decided to keep the bug secret, citing two sources...

OpenSSL Vulnerability

OVERVIEW This advisory is a follow-up to the updated alert titled ICS-ALERT-14-099-01E Situational Awareness Alert for OpenSSL Vulnerability that was published April 29, 2014, on the NCCIC/ICS-CERT web site. The OpenSSL Heartbleed vulnerability was independently identified by both Neel Mehta of...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : java-1.7.0-openjdk (MDVSA-2013:267)

Updated java-1.7.0-openjdk packages fix security vulnerabilities : Multiple input checking flaws were found in the 2D component native image parsing code. A specially crafted image file could trigger a Java Virtual Machine memory corruption and, possibly, lead to arbitrary code execution with the...

Amazon Linux AMI : java-1.6.0-openjdk (ALAS-2013-246)

Multiple input checking flaws were found in the 2D component native image parsing code. A specially crafted image file could trigger a Java Virtual Machine memory corruption and, possibly, lead to arbitrary code execution with the privileges of the user running the Java Virtual Machine...

Amazon Linux AMI : java-1.7.0-openjdk (ALAS-2013-235)

Multiple input checking flaws were found in the 2D component native image parsing code. A specially crafted image file could trigger a Java Virtual Machine memory corruption and, possibly, lead to arbitrary code execution with the privileges of the user running the Java Virtual Machine...

Updated java-1.6.0-openjdk package fixes multiple vulnerabilities

Updated java-1.6.0-openjdk packages fix security vulnerabilities: Multiple input checking flaws were found in the 2D component native image parsing code. A specially crafted image file could trigger a Java Virtual Machine memory corruption and, possibly, lead to arbitrary code execution with the...

Scientific Linux Security Update : java-1.6.0-openjdk on SL5.x, SL6.x i386/x86_64 (20131105)

Multiple input checking flaws were found in the 2D component native image parsing code. A specially crafted image file could trigger a Java Virtual Machine memory corruption and, possibly, lead to arbitrary code execution with the privileges of the user running the Java Virtual Machine...