CVE-2016-2203

The management console on Symantec Messaging Gateway SMG Appliance devices before 10.6.1 allows local users to discover an encrypted AD password by leveraging certain read privileges...

Code injection

The management console on Symantec Messaging Gateway SMG Appliance devices before 10.6.1 allows local users to discover an encrypted AD password by leveraging certain read privileges...

CVE-2016-2203

The management console on Symantec Messaging Gateway SMG Appliance devices before 10.6.1 allows local users to discover an encrypted AD password by leveraging certain read privileges...

New Downloader for Locky

Through DTI Intelligence analysis, We have been observing Locky malware rise to fame recently. Locky is ransomware that is aggressively distributed via downloaders attached in spam emails, and it may have surpassed the Dridex banking trojan in popularity. In previous campaigns, the ransomware was...

More than 1 million People now access Facebook Over Tor Network

In Brief Facebook has hit another Milestone: More than 1 MILLION people, or you can say privacy conscious, are accessing Facebook over TOR. Facebook proudly announced today that, this month, for the first time, the people connected to the anonymous version of Facebook that's accessible only throu...

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...

Encrypted Smartphone Network Seized by Dutch Police for Criminal Investigation

On Tuesday, the Dutch Police arrested a 36-year-old man, Danny Manupassa, on suspicion of money laundering and involvement in selling encrypted smartphones to criminals. Manupassa owns a company called Ennetcom, which provides customized Blackberry Phones with the secure PGP-encrypted network...

Researcher releases Free Ransomware Detection Tool for Mac OS X Users

In Brief: Introducing RansomWhere, a free generic ransomware detection tool for Mac OS X users that can identify ransomware-like behavior by continually monitoring the file-system for the creation of encrypted files by suspicious processes. This ransomware detection tool helps to block the...

Advanced Forensics File Format: AFF4

The Advanced Forensics File format 4 was originally designed and published in “Extending the advanced forensic format to accommodate multiple data sources, logical evidence, arbitrary information and forensic workflow” M.I. Cohen, Simson Garfinkel and Bradley Schatz, digital investigation 6 2009...

The LDAP client and server don't enforce integrity protection

Description Samba uses various LDAP client libraries, a builtin one and/or the system ldap libraries typically openldap. As active directory domain controller Samba also provides an LDAP server. Samba takes care of doing SASL GSS-SPNEGO authentication with Kerberos or NTLMSSP for LDAP connections...

[SECURITY] Fedora 23 Update: fuse-encfs-1.8.1-1.fc23

EncFS implements an encrypted filesystem in userspace using FUSE. FUSE provides a Linux kernel module which allows virtual filesystems to be writt en in userspace. EncFS encrypts all data and filenames in the filesystem and passes access through to the underlying filesystem. Similar to CFS except...

[SECURITY] Fedora 22 Update: fuse-encfs-1.8.1-1.fc22

EncFS implements an encrypted filesystem in userspace using FUSE. FUSE provides a Linux kernel module which allows virtual filesystems to be writt en in userspace. EncFS encrypts all data and filenames in the filesystem and passes access through to the underlying filesystem. Similar to CFS except...

Cheetah Security Master Android International Password Bypass Vulnerability

Cheetah Security Master is a mobile security software from Cheetah Mobile. Cheetah Security Master suffers from a password bypass vulnerability, through which an attacker can bypass authentication and directly access encrypted information...

[SECURITY] Fedora 24 Update: fuse-encfs-1.8.1-1.fc24

EncFS implements an encrypted filesystem in userspace using FUSE. FUSE provides a Linux kernel module which allows virtual filesystems to be writt en in userspace. EncFS encrypts all data and filenames in the filesystem and passes access through to the underlying filesystem. Similar to CFS except...

WhatsApp turns on End-to-End Encryption by default for its 1 Billion Users

WhatsApp is updating its messaging app so that every text message and voice call will be encrypted for the company’s one billion users. Yes, Whatsapp has finally implemented full end-to-end encryption, as promised a year ago. This means, from now every message, image or voice call you made will b...

Codewords Encrypted Crosswords - Base64 encoded String, Customized SSL, Dangerous filesystem permissions vulnerabilities

HackApp vulnerability scanner discovered that application Codewords Encrypted Crosswords published at the 'play' market has multiple vulnerabilities...

[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...

Apple Intel HD3000 Graphics kernel driver patch

While the iMessage crypto bug got most of the attention among this week’s Apple patches, another vulnerability that was addressed represents a nasty trend of privilege escalation flaws that merit watching. Researchers at Cisco on Wednesday disclosed details on a flaw in an OS X graphics kernel...

Johns Hopkins Researchers: Crypto Flaws Endanger iMessage Integrity

When Apple released its iOS Security Guide for public consumption, it was an unprecedented look inside the security architecture behind its products. For cryptographer and professor Matthew Green and a team of four Johns Hopkins University graduate students, it was a road map to understanding not...

The Best Way to Send and Receive End-to-End Encrypted Emails

How many of you know the fact that your daily e-mails are passaged through a deep espionage filter? This was unknown until the whistleblower Edward Snowden broke all the surveillance secrets, which made privacy and security important for all Internet users than ever before. I often get asked "How...