Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: openssl security update

Updated openssl packages that fix multiple security issues are now available for Red Hat Storage 2.1. The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having Important security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base scores, which give detailed severity ratings, are...

UBUNTU-CVE-2014-0224

OpenSSL before 0.9.8za, 1.0.0 before 1.0.0m, and 1.0.1 before 1.0.1h does not properly restrict processing of ChangeCipherSpec messages, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to trigger use of a zero-length master key in certain OpenSSL-to-OpenSSL communications, and consequently hijack sessio...

Crowdsourcing to be Part of Phase Two of TrueCrypt Audit

TrueCrypt may yet get forked, but it won’t come at the hands of the Open Crypto Audit Project OCAP, which has a working plan to move forward with a cryptanalysis of the open source encryption software. OCAP is the brand name for the grassroots movement that arose out of the ashes of the Snowden...

Popular Encryption Software TrueCrypt Shuts Down Mysteriously

TrueCrypt, the popular and reputed open source file and disk encryption Software for Windows, OSX and Linux, has abruptly closed down Wednesday recommending its users to use Microsoft's Bitlocker. TrueCrypt is a free, open-source and cross-platform encryption program, thereby one of the world's...

Book Review: Hacking Point of Sale, In-Depth Study on Payment Applications

Point-of-sale POS is the hottest topic in payment structures and its one of the most popular technology topics as well. A Point-of-sale POS machine is a computerized replacement for a cash register. It has ability to quickly process a customer's transaction, accurately keep the records, process...

JDK: Vulnerability in the IBMSecureRandom implementation of the IBMJCE and IBMSecureRandom cryptographic providers

The IBMSecureRandom component in the IBMJCE and IBMSecureRandom cryptographic providers in IBM SDK Java Technology Edition 5.0 before Service Refresh 16 FP6, 6 before Service Refresh 16, 6.0.1 before Service Refresh 8, 7 before Service Refresh 7, and 7R1 before Service Refresh 1 makes it easier f...

EncFS multiple cryptography vulnerabilities

Multiple vulnerabilities...

[oss-security] A number of EncFS issues

Hi, https://defuse.ca/audits/encfs.htm discusses a number of issues in EncFS: "Same Key Used for Encryption and Authentication" "Stream Cipher Used to Encrypt Last File Block" "Generating Block IV by XORing Block Number" "File Holes are Not Authenticated" "MACs Not Compared in Constant Time"...

IBM Patches Predictable Output Problem in SecureRandom PRNG

Details have surfaced on a recently patched vulnerability in IBM’s SecureRandom pseudo-random number generator that could allow an attacker to predict its output. Only the default SecureRandom implementation in the IBM Java Cryptography Extension JCE framework is vulnerable; IBM recommends that...

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...

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...