Microsoft discontinues MD5 crypto for digital certificates to improve RDP Authentication

This week Microsoft has released several advisories to help their users update from weak crypto. Microsoft is beginning the process of discontinuing support for digital certificates that use the MD5 hashing algorithm and to improve the network-level authentication for the Remote Desktop Protocol...

MS KB2862973: Update for Deprecation of MD5 Hashing Algorithm for Microsoft Root Certificate Program

The remote host is missing Microsoft KB2862973, an update that restricts the use of certificates with MD5 hashes. This restriction is limited to certificates issued under roots in the Microsoft root certificate program. This update increases the difficulty of some spoofing, phishing, and...

MS KB2862966: Updates to Improve Cryptography and Digital Certificate Handling in Windows

The remote host is missing Microsoft KB2862966, an update that improves cryptography and digital certificate handling in Windows. C Tenable Network Security, Inc. include"compat.inc"; if description scriptid69332; scriptversion"1.6"; scriptcvsdate"Date: 2018/11/15 20:50:28"; scriptxrefname:"MSKB"...

Warning: Android Bitcoin wallet apps vulnerable to theft

A critical vulnerability in the Android implementation of the Java SecureRandom random number generator was discovered, that leaves Bitcoin digital wallets on the mobile platform vulnerable to theft. Before the announcement was made, users on the forums had noticed over 55 BTC were stolen a few...

Warning: Android Bitcoin wallet apps vulnerable to theft

A critical vulnerability in the Android implementation of the Java SecureRandom random number generator was discovered, that leaves Bitcoin digital wallets on the mobile platform vulnerable to theft. Before the announcement was made, users on the forums had noticed over 55 BTC were stolen a few...

Criminals rapidly migrating to new digital Currency 'Perfect Money' after Liberty Reserve takedown

There are so many ways to move money anonymously on the Internet and US Justice Department has declared war on currencies widely used by cyber criminals. Just after the Law Enforcement in 17 countries shuts down 'Liberty Reserve', a $6 billion digital money laundering operation, now the criminals...

New Twitter Login Verification System Avoids SMS Codes

Twitter is rolling out an updated login verification system for iPhone and Android that uses a novel cryptographic scheme that is designed to be resilient against attack and ensures that the private key never leaves the user’s device. The system doesn’t rely on SMS to send codes to users for logi...

Experts Urge ECC crytpo over RSA algorithm

LAS VEGAS – Cryptographic breakthroughs have accelerated in the past six months in areas such as discrete logarithm computations that lead experts to believe that breaking the stalwart RSA algorithm may be in the not-too-distant future. A team of crypto experts today at Black Hat USA 2013 present...

Software Obfuscation Mechanism Hampers Reverse Engineering

Researchers at UCLA said they’ve developed a game-changing obfuscation mechanism that will put a dent in hackers’ efforts to reverse engineer patches and understand how an underlying piece of software works. “You write your software in a nice, reasonable, human-understandable way and then feed th...

[SECURITY] Fedora 18 Update: nodejs-cryptiles-0.2.1-1.fc18

General purpose cryptography utilities for Node.js...

SIM Card Vulnerability Could Affect Millions of Cell Phones

As many as 750 million mobile phones could be vulnerable to an encryption flaw on certain types of SIM cards, a German cryptographer and researcher warned over the weekend. Karsten Nohl, the founder of Security Research Labs in Berlin, unveiled preliminary research on his blog behind the flaw in...

Chinese Hackers discovered second Android master key vulnerability

Android Security Squad, the China-based group that uncovered a second Android master key vulnerability that might be abused to modify smartphone apps without breaking their digital signatures. The whole point of digitally signing a document or file is to prove the file hasn't been modified. The...

Chinese Hackers discovered second Android master key vulnerability

Android Security Squad, the China-based group that uncovered a second Android master key vulnerability that might be abused to modify smartphone apps without breaking their digital signatures. The whole point of digitally signing a document or file is to prove the file hasn't been modified. The...

Oracle Linux 3 : openssl (ELSA-2007-0813)

From Red Hat Security Advisory 2007:0813 : Updated OpenSSL packages that correct security issues are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1 and 3. This update has been rated as having moderate security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team. OpenSSL is a toolkit that implements Secu...

Oracle Linux 5 / 6 : openssl (ELSA-2013-0587)

The remote Oracle Linux 5 / 6 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2013-0587 advisory. - fix for CVE-2013-0169 - SSL/TLS CBC timing attack 907589 - fix for CVE-2013-0166 - DoS in OCSP signatures checking 908052 - enable compression on...

Oracle Linux 3 / 4 : openssl (ELSA-2010-0163)

From Red Hat Security Advisory 2010:0163 : Updated openssl packages that fix several security issues are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 and 4. The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having moderate security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base...

PHP-Fusion: source code security analysis report

Several vulnerabilities were discovered in PHP-Fusion 'PHP-Fusion' software: Incorrect User Input Filtration when Connecting to External Files File System Path Manipulation Incorrect User Input Filtration when Using Regular Expressions while Calling the pregreplace Function Using Insufficiently...

Microsoft Update to Improve Cryptography and Digital Certificate Handling (2854544)

This host is missing an important security update according to Microsoft Security Advisory 2854544. OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $Id: secpodcryptndigitalcerthandlingupdate.nasl 5347 2017-02-19 09:15:55Z cfi $ Microsoft Update to Improve Cryptography and Digital Certificate Handling 2854544 Authors:...

Microsoft Update to Improve Cryptography and Digital Certificate Handling (2854544)

This host is missing an important security update according to Microsoft Security Advisory 2854544. SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2013 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier:...

Improved cryptography infrastructure and the June 2013 bulletins

It was just over one year ago, May 28, 2012, to be exact, that I transitioned from running active MSRC cases and writing bulletins to my current role managing software security incidents. A lot has changed in that year- and I’ve dealt with some interesting issues during my tenure - but our goal o...