Former NSA Director Addresses Crypto Standard Subversion

During the last 11 months of mounting leaks and revelations about the government’s surveillance operations and the lengths it will go to gain intelligence on foreign threats, perhaps the most disturbing revelation was the intentional subversion of widely used cryptographic standards. It’s also be...

Design/Logic Flaw

The engineNextBytes function in classlib/modules/security/src/main/java/common/org/apache/harmony/security/provider/crypto/SHA1PRNGSecureRandomImpl.java in the SecureRandom implementation in Apache Harmony through 6.0M3, as used in the Java Cryptography Architecture JCA in Android before 4.4 and...

PT-2014-3401

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Apache Harmony versions through 6.0M3 Android versions prior to 4.4 Description The issue concerns the SecureRandom implementation, specifically the engineNextBytes function in the SHA1PRNG SecureRandomImpl class. When no seed is provided, it...

Mozilla Offers Bug Bounty for Heartbleed-like Crypto Bugs

As part of a special security bug bounty program, Mozilla Corporation is offering $10,000 to anyone who reports a qualifying security vulnerability in the new cryptography library it plans to deploy in a yet-to-be-released version of Firefox. Today, Mozilla’s security engineering team announced t...

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of a $10 million secret contract between RSA Security and the National Security Agency has been removed from NIST’s draft guidance on random number generators.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...

AIX OpenSSL Advisory : openssl_advisory2.asc

The version of OpenSSL running on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerabilities : - ssl/t1lib.c in OpenSSL 0.9.8h through 0.9.8q and 1.0.0 through 1.0.0c allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service crash, and possibly obtain sensitive information in applications that use...

AIX OpenSSL Advisory : openssl_advisory3.asc

The version of OpenSSL running on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerabilities : - The DTLS implementation in OpenSSL before 0.9.8s and 1.x before 1.0.0f performs a MAC check only if certain padding is valid, which makes it easier for remote attackers to recover plaintext via a...

OpenSSL Heartbleed Bug Exploited Before This Week?

Bruce Schneier stood on the Source Boston keynote stage yesterday and used the word “ginormous” to describe the severity of the OpenSSL heartbleed bug. “My guess is that when heartbleed became public, the top 20 governments in the world started exploiting it immediately,” Schneier said. That’s...

Crypto Model Based on Human Cardiorespiratory Coupling

A novel and theoretical encryption scheme inspired by new insights into the way that the human heart and lungs communicate is said to be substantially different than existing crypto-methods and highly resistant to conventional attacks. The research was undertaken and published by Professors...

DoD DIACAP transition to RMF approved

Welcome DIARMF! This has been a long time coming. From DITSCAP to DIACAP and now to DIARMF the Department of Defense approved the transition to a Risk Management Framework RMF approach developed by NIST on March 12. What does this mean for Information Systems and Platform Information Technology...

Research Finds MAC Address Hashing Not a Fix for Privacy Problems

UPDATE–Cryptographic algorithms and hash functions are designed to be resistant to a variety of attacks, but one of the things that they can’t defend against is time. Time and the inevitable advancement of technology have turned out to be the greatest enemies of cryptography, and a quick research...

CVE-2014-0694

Cisco Intelligent Automation for Cloud (IAC) in Cisco Cloud Portal 9.4.1 and earlier contains fixed cryptographic material in binary files, enabling remote attackers to obtain cleartext data from any IAC installation with knowledge of the embedded key. Impact is confidential data leakage due to c...

Ransomware Scam Plagued by Weak Crypto

A new piece of ransomware that emerged earlier this month is encrypting its victim’s files with an easily breakable cryptographic algorithm. BitCrypt, as it is known, purports to lock down files with 1024-bit RSA encryption but actually only deploys a much weaker 426-bit key. According to...

[DVIA] Damn Vulnerable iOS Application

.png Damn Vulnerable iOS App DVIA is an iOS application that is damn vulnerable. Its main goal is to provide a platform to mobile security enthusiasts/professionals or students to test their iOS penetration testing skills in a legal environment. This application covers all the common...

Apple's iOS vulnerable to Man-in-the-middle Attack, Install iOS 7.0.6 to Patch

Apple's latest 35.4 MB update of iOS 7.0.6 doesn't seem important at first, but it contains a critical security patch that addresses a flaw with SSL encryption. Yes, a very critical security vulnerability that could allow hackers to intercept email and other communications that are meant to be...

Learn How DuckDuckGo Search Engine helps you to be a Good Programmer

So you want to be a Programmer? Want to learn - How to code, Debug, and Program? The Web is full of free resources that can turn you into a programmer in no time, but never knew Where to start or How to troubleshoot your programs. Learning How to be a good programmer begins with learning logic...

CentOS Update for openswan CESA-2014:0185 centos6

The remote host is missing an update for the 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...

RHEL 5 / 6 : openswan (RHSA-2014:0185)

Updated openswan packages that fix one security issue are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and 6. The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having moderate security impact. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating,...

Fedora Update for mod_nss FEDORA-2013-22730

Check for the Version of modnss OpenVAS Vulnerability Test Fedora Update for modnss FEDORA-2013-22730 Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright C 2014 Greenbone Networks GmbH, http://www.greenbone.net This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the ter...

NSA allegedly hacked Belgian Cryptography Expert with spoofed LinkedIn Profile

Cryptographer Professor Jean-Jacques Quisquater has become the part of a targeted attack by the US National Security Agency NSA and its British counterpart GCHQ, first reported on Saturday morning by De Standaard. A few months back in September 2013 it was revealed that, Belgacom, the largest...