NTT Photopt App Man-in-the-Middle Attack Vulnerability

NTT Photopt App is a suite of applications for managing photos from the NTT Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation group in Japan. A security vulnerability exists in NTT Photopt App version 1.0.0 and 1.1.0, which can be exploited by attackers to conduct man-in-the-middle attacks and listen to...

[SECURITY] Fedora 22 Update: openssh-6.9p1-11.fc22

SSH Secure SHell is a program for logging into and executing commands on a remote machine. SSH is intended to replace rlogin and rsh, and to provide secure encrypted communications between two untrusted hosts over an insecure network. X11 connections and arbitrary TCP/IP ports can also be forward...

[SECURITY] Fedora 23 Update: openssh-7.2p2-1.fc23

SSH Secure SHell is a program for logging into and executing commands on a remote machine. SSH is intended to replace rlogin and rsh, and to provide secure encrypted communications between two untrusted hosts over an insecure network. X11 connections and arbitrary TCP/IP ports can also be forward...

Malwarebytes Anti-Malware Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

Malwarebytes Anti-Malware MBAM is a suite of anti-malware spyware from the American company Malwarebytes. The software supports the removal of worms, dial-up programs, Trojans, rootkits, spyware, exploits, bots, and other malware, among others. An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists in...

[SECURITY] Fedora 22 Update: openssh-6.9p1-10.fc22

SSH Secure SHell is a program for logging into and executing commands on a remote machine. SSH is intended to replace rlogin and rsh, and to provide secure encrypted communications between two untrusted hosts over an insecure network. X11 connections and arbitrary TCP/IP ports can also be forward...

[SECURITY] Fedora 23 Update: openssh-7.1p2-1.fc23

SSH Secure SHell is a program for logging into and executing commands on a remote machine. SSH is intended to replace rlogin and rsh, and to provide secure encrypted communications between two untrusted hosts over an insecure network. X11 connections and arbitrary TCP/IP ports can also be forward...

CenoCipher - Easy-To-Use, End-To-End Encrypted Communications Tool

CenoCipher is a free, open-source, easy-to-use tool for exchanging secure encrypted communications over the internet. It uses strong cryptography to convert messages and files into encrypted cipher-data, which can then be sent to the recipient via regular email or any other channel available, suc...

France will not Ban Public Wi-Fi Or Tor Network, Prime Minister Valls Confirms

Despite the French Ministry of Interior's demands, France will not ban the TOR anonymity network or Free public Wi-Fi as a way to help the law enforcement fight terrorism. French Prime Minister Manual Valls has gone on record saying that a ban on Free public Wi-Fi is "not a course of action...

[USN-2769-1] Apache Commons HttpClient

========================================================================== Ubuntu Security Notice USN-2769-1 October 14, 2015 commons-httpclient vulnerabilities ========================================================================== A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its...

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS : Apache Commons HttpClient vulnerabilities (USN-2769-1)

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-2769-1 advisory. It was discovered that Apache Commons HttpClient did not properly verify the Common Name or subjectAltName fields of X.509 certificates. An attacker coul...

USN-2769-1: Apache Commons HttpClient vulnerabilities

It was discovered that Apache Commons HttpClient did not properly verify the Common Name or subjectAltName fields of X.509 certificates. An attacker could exploit this to perform a machine-in-the-middle attack to view sensitive information or alter encrypted communications. This issue only affect...

[SECURITY] Fedora 21 Update: openssh-6.6.1p1-16.fc21

SSH Secure SHell is a program for logging into and executing commands on a remote machine. SSH is intended to replace rlogin and rsh, and to provide secure encrypted communications between two untrusted hosts over an insecure network. X11 connections and arbitrary TCP/IP ports can also be forward...

[SECURITY] Fedora 21 Update: openssh-6.6.1p1-15.fc21

SSH Secure SHell is a program for logging into and executing commands on a remote machine. SSH is intended to replace rlogin and rsh, and to provide secure encrypted communications between two untrusted hosts over an insecure network. X11 connections and arbitrary TCP/IP ports can also be forward...

[SECURITY] Fedora 22 Update: openssh-6.9p1-4.fc22

SSH Secure SHell is a program for logging into and executing commands on a remote machine. SSH is intended to replace rlogin and rsh, and to provide secure encrypted communications between two untrusted hosts over an insecure network. X11 connections and arbitrary TCP/IP ports can also be forward...

[SECURITY] Fedora 22 Update: openssh-6.9p1-3.fc22

SSH Secure SHell is a program for logging into and executing commands on a remote machine. SSH is intended to replace rlogin and rsh, and to provide secure encrypted communications between two untrusted hosts over an insecure network. X11 connections and arbitrary TCP/IP ports can also be forward...

[SECURITY] Fedora 22 Update: openssh-6.9p1-1.fc22

SSH Secure SHell is a program for logging into and executing commands on a remote machine. SSH is intended to replace rlogin and rsh, and to provide secure encrypted communications between two untrusted hosts over an insecure network. X11 connections and arbitrary TCP/IP ports can also be forward...

Hospira MedNet Hardcoded Key Vulnerability

MedNet manages drug libraries, firmware updates, and configurations for Hospira IV pumps for use in the healthcare and public health sectors. MedNet uses hard-coded keys that allow attackers to intercept encrypted communications from syringe pumps...

NSA Could Be Hoping For Clipper Chip Redux

The NSA has a new director, a slew of new challenges and any number of new capabilities at its disposal. But it seems that the agency is intent on fighting the same old battles. Even as fresh revelations about the extent of the NSA’s efforts to get access to encryption keys for mobile...

EC3 Head Paints Bleak Cybercrime Picture

WASHINGTON D.C. – Everyone has the right to privacy, said Troels Oerting, head of the Europol’s European Cybercrime Center EC3, at Georgetown Law’s Cybercrime2020 conference yesterday. However, he went on, if you break your contract with society, that right can be taken away. Oerting noted that i...

USN-2390-1: Pidgin vulnerabilities

Jacob Appelbaum and an anonymous person discovered that Pidgin incorrectly handled certificate validation. A remote attacker could exploit this to perform a machine-in-the-middle attack to view sensitive information or alter encrypted communications. CVE-2014-3694 Yves Younan and Richard Johnson...