BlackBerry Warns Many Products Vulnerable to FREAK Attack

BlackBerry is warning customers that a large portion of the company’s product portfolio is vulnerable to the FREAK SSL attack. Many versions of the BlackBerry OS and BlackBerry Enterprise Server are vulnerable to FREAK, as are a number of versions of BlackBerry Messenger. The advisory from...

N-Tron 702W Hard-Coded SSH and HTTPS Encryption Keys (Update A)

OVERVIEW This updated advisory is a follow-up to the original advisory titled ICSA-15-160-01 N-Tron 702W Hard-Coded SSH and HTTPS Encryption Keys that was published June 9, 2015, on the NCCIC/ICS-CERT web site. Independent researcher Neil Smith has identified hard-coded SSH and HTTPS encryption...

(Mobile Pwn2Own) Google Android Bluetooth Forced Pairing Vulnerability

This vulnerability allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code on vulnerable installations of Google Android. Authentication is not required to exploit this vulnerability. The specific flaw exists within the Bluetooth application stack allowing for arbitrary Host Controller Interface comman...

CIA Has Been Hacking iPhone and iPad Encryption Security

Security researchers at the Central Intelligence Agency CIA have worked for almost a decade to target security keys used to encrypt data stored on Apple devices in order to break the system. Citing the top-secret documents obtained from NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, The Intercept blog reporte...

Komodia Certificate Manipulation Enabled Man-In-The-Middle Attacks

The shoddy state of SSL certificate validation on the Internet again floated to the surface, this time by the Superfish mess, which continues to get worse. The Electronic Frontier Foundation on Wednesday released a report based on data scoured from the Decentralized SSL Observatory which it...

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...

Gemalto Hack May Have Far-Reaching Effects

Security experts are still trying to assess the effects of the reported attack on SIM card manufacturer that resulted in the theft of millions of encryption keys for mobile phones around the world, but it’s safe to say that the operation has caused reverberations throughout the industry and...

NSA Stole Millions Of SIM Card Encryption Keys To Gather Private Data

Edward Snowden is back with one of the biggest revelations about the government's widespread surveillance program. The US National Security Agency NSA and British counterpart Government Communications Headquarters GCHQ hacked into the networks of the world's biggest SIM card manufacturer, accordi...

China Demands Tech Companies to give them Backdoor and Encryption Keys

A number of western companies are doing big business in China, but now they may have to pay a huge value for to do so. China has introduced strict new banking cyber security regulations on western companies selling technology to Chinese banks. The Chinese government wants backdoors installed in a...

Fortinet FortiClient Hardcoded Encryption Keys / Broken SSL Validation

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Samsung Rebuffs Criticism of Knox Crypto, Password Management

Replies and rebuttals are flying about regarding a report critical of the encryption and password management functions deployed with Samsung’s Knox technology in its Android-based Galaxy and Note mobile devices. Last week, a researcher published an advisory that said a PIN chosen during setup of...

Code injection

CoreStorage in Apple OS X before 10.10 retains a volume's encryption keys upon an eject action in the unlocked state, which makes it easier for physically proximate attackers to obtain cleartext data via a remount...

Stealing Encryption Keys Just by Touching a Laptop

As far sci-fi movies have been entertaining the public, but their ideas have always been a matter of adoption in real life. Just like in any other sci-fi movie, simply touching a laptop can be enough to extract the cryptographic keys used to secure data stored on it. A team of computer security...

OpenJDK: TLS/SSL handshake timing issues (JSSE, 8023069)

Unspecified vulnerability in Oracle Java SE 5.0u55, 6u65, and 7u45; JRockit R27.7.7 and R28.2.9; Java SE Embedded 7u45; and OpenJDK 7 allows remote attackers to affect confidentiality and integrity via vectors related to JSSE. NOTE: the previous information is from the January 2014 CPU. Oracle ha...

New Pushdo Malware Hacks 11,000 Computers in Just 24 Hours

One of the oldest active malware families, Pushdo, is again making its way onto the Internet and has recently infected more than 11,000 computers in just 24 hours. Pushdo, a multipurpose Trojan, is primarily known for delivering financial malware such as ZeuS and SpyEye onto infected computers or...

OpenSSL Heartbleed Patch Progress Slowing Two Months Later

It’s been more than two months since news broke of the Heartbleed vulnerability in OpenSSL one of the Internet’s most widely deployed cryptographic libraries. In the days and weeks that followed the emergence of the bug, which affected an unknown but arguably vast swath of the Web, vendors were...

Asprox Malware Borrowing Stealth from APT Campaigns

Cybercriminals and advanced attackers are freely borrowing from one another’s repertoires to great success. The latest example involves spammers firing off up to a half-million email messages during limited campaign segments without triggering any detection alarms. Security company FireEye said t...

SEC Consult SA-20140508-0 :: Multiple critical vulnerabilities in AVG Remote Administration

SEC Consult Vulnerability Lab Security Advisory 20140508-0 ======================================================================= title: Multiple critical vulnerabilities product: AVG Remote Administration vulnerable version: all - except issue 2 fixed version: none - except issue 2 impact:...

AVG Remote Administration Bypass / Code Execution / Static Keys

SEC Consult Vulnerability Lab Security Advisory ======================================================================= title: Multiple critical vulnerabilities product: AVG Remote Administration vulnerable version: all - except issue 2 fixed version: none - except issue 2 impact: critical...

Apple Fixes Serious SSL Issue in OSX and iOS

Apple has fixed a serious security flaw that’s present in many versions of both iOS and OSX and could allow an attacker to intercept data on SSL connections. The bug is one of many that the company fixed Tuesday in its two main operating systems, and several of the other vulnerabilities have...