CVE-2017-3885

A vulnerability in the detection engine reassembly of Secure Sockets Layer SSL packets for Cisco Firepower System Software could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause a denial of service DoS condition because the Snort process consumes a high level of CPU resources. Affected Products...

High-Severity OpenSSL Vulnerability allows Hackers to Decrypt HTTPS Traffic

OpenSSL has released a series of patches against six vulnerabilities, including a pair of high-severity flaws that could allow attackers to execute malicious code on a web server as well as decrypt HTTPS traffic. OpenSSL is an open-source cryptographic library that is the most widely being used b...

Student Decrypts Simplocker Android Ransomware that Encrypts Files

In a previous story, I reported about a new ransomware threat known as Simplocker discovered by researchers at the security firm ESET, targeting Android users in the UK, Switzerland, Germany, India and Russia, for ransom. Simplocker Android/Simplocker.A is the latest Android ransomware that has...

Windows Gather SmartFTP Saved Password Extraction

This module finds saved login credentials for the SmartFTP FTP client for windows. It finds the saved passwords and decrypts them. This module requires Metasploit: https://metasploit.com/download Current source: https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework require 'rexml/document' class...