Ransomware’s Dangerous New Trick: Double-Encrypting Your Data

Even when you pay for a decryption key, your files may still be locked up by another strain of malware...

Babuk Ransomware Gang Mulls Retirement

Just a few days after hackers bragged about purportedly raiding the computer systems of the Washington D.C. Metropolitan Police Department MPD and doxxing what looked like its data, the Babuk ransomware-as-a-service RaaS gang prepared a goodbye note saying that they’re hanging up its spurs...

Fedora: Security Advisory for mupdf (FEDORA-2021-d8e6f014e5)

The remote host is missing an update for the Copyright C 2021 Greenbone Networks GmbH Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later This program is free software; you can...

Moderate: Red Hat Security Advisory: gnupg2 security, bug fix, and enhancement update

An update for gnupg2 is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the...

[SECURITY] Fedora 33 Update: mupdf-1.18.0-2.fc33

MuPDF is a lightweight PDF viewer and toolkit written in portable C. The renderer in MuPDF is tailored for high quality anti-aliased graphics. MuPDF renders text with metrics and spacing accurate to within fractions of a pixel for the highest fidelity in reproducing the look of a printed page on...

Design/Logic Flaw

IBM Spectrum Protect Server 8.1.0.000 through 8.1.10.000 could disclose sensitive information in nondefault settings due to occasionally not encrypting the second chunk of an object in an encrypted container pool. IBM X-Force ID: 184746...

DoppelPaymer ransomware hits SpaceX, Tesla & Boeing’s parts manufacturer

By Deeba Ahmed According to security researchers, DoppelPaymer Ransomware is a relatively new file-encrypting and data-stealing malware. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: DoppelPaymer ransomware hits SpaceX, Tesla & Boeing's parts manufacturer...

OPENSUSE-SU-2020:0003-1 Security update for MozillaThunderbird

This update for MozillaThunderbird fixes the following issues: Mozilla Thunderbird was updated to 68.3esr MFSA 2019-38 bsc1158328 Security issues fixed: - CVE-2019-17008: Fixed a use-after-free in worker destruction bmo1546331 - CVE-2019-13722: Fixed a stack corruption due to incorrect number of...

Inspecting TLS Web Traffic - Part 2

In the first blog post I covered why HTTPS web traffic has grown to unprecedented levels, provided a TLS primer and looked at the basic concept of intercepting and inspecting HTTPS web traffic with Man-In-The-Middle techniques MITM. In the second part, I will dive a bit deeper into how the TLS MI...

[SECURITY] Fedora 30 Update: mupdf-1.15.0-1.fc30

MuPDF is a lightweight PDF viewer and toolkit written in portable C. The renderer in MuPDF is tailored for high quality anti-aliased graphics. MuPDF renders text with metrics and spacing accurate to within fractions of a pixel for the highest fidelity in reproducing the look of a printed page on...

Self-Encrypting Drive Vulnerabilities - Lenovo Support US

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Self-Encrypting Drive Vulnerabilities - US

Lenovo Security Advisory: LEN-25256 Potential Impact: Information disclosure Severity: Medium Scope of Impact: Industry-wide CVE Identifier: CVE-2018-12037, CVE-2018-12038, CVE-2019-10636, CVE-2019-10705, CVE-2019-10706, CVE-2019-11686 Summary Description: As reported in CERT Coordination Center...

Samsung, Crucial’s Flawed Storage Drive Encryption Leaves Data Exposed

Self-encrypting solid-state storage drives from Samsung and Crucial are open to tampering that would allow an attacker with physical access to harvest their data without knowing the user’s password, researchers have discovered. Researchers at Radboud University in the Netherlands found that it’s...

Flaws in Popular Self-Encrypting SSDs Let Attackers Decrypt Data

We all have something to hide, something to protect. But if you are also relying on self-encrypting drives for that, then you should read this news carefully. Security researchers have discovered multiple critical vulnerabilities in some of the popular self-encrypting solid state drives SSD that...

Flaws in Popular Self-Encrypting SSDs Let Attackers Decrypt Data

We all have something to hide, something to protect. But if you are also relying on self-encrypting drives for that, then you should read this news carefully. Security researchers have discovered multiple critical vulnerabilities in some of the popular self-encrypting solid state drives SSD that...

Guidance for configuring BitLocker to enforce software encryption

Microsoft is aware of reports of vulnerabilities in the hardware encryption of certain self-encrypting drives SEDs. Customers concerned about this issue should consider using the software only encryption provided by BitLocker Drive Encryption™. On Windows computers with self-encrypting drives,...

Self-encrypting hard drives do not adequately protect data

Overview There are multiple vulnerabilities in implementations of ATA Security or TCG Opal Standards in Self-Encrypting Disks SEDs, which can allow an attacker to decrypt contents of an encrypted drive. Description CVE-2018-12037 There is no cryptographic relation between the password provided by...

Microsoft Windows: Enable Encrypted File System

The Encrypting File System EFS is a feature available in Windows which provides encryption in filesystem level. SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2018 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders...

CoinVault Ransomware Authors Sentenced to 240 Hours of Community Service

Almost three years after the arrest of two young Dutch brothers, who pleaded guilty to their involvement in creating and distributing CoinVault ransomware malware, a district court in Rotterdam today sentenced them to 240 hours of community service. In 2015, the two suspects — Melvin 25-year-old...

CVE-2017-13097

The P1735 IEEE standard describes flawed methods for encrypting electronic-design intellectual property IP, as well as the management of access rights for such IP, including modification of Rights Block to remove or relax license requirement. The methods are flawed and, in the most egregious case...