Arrests Made In $45M Russian Bank Hack

Russian law enforcement has made 50 arrests in connection with a five-year operation to steal three billion rubles just shy of $45 million USD from the country’s largest bank, Sberbank. The hackers are alleged to have exploited websites, including popular news sites, to infect victims with the Lu...

FBI Wants Biometric Database Exempt From Privacy Rules

Civil liberties and privacy groups are petitioning the U.S. government for more time to fight the FBI’s request to exempt itself from lawsuits related to its warehouse of an estimated 100 million biometric records if it’s found in violation of the federal Privacy Act of 1974. At issue is the...

Information Disclosure Vulnerability in Feta Firewall

Fortinet is a multi-layered threat defense system. An information disclosure vulnerability exists in the Fita Firewall. In HTTP mode, the login interface and the administrator create an account, using plaintext transmission, and no mandatory requirements for weak passwords are made when creating ...

Apple hires Encryption Expert to Beef Up Security on its Devices

The FBI and other law enforcement agencies have waged legal war on encryption and privacy technologies. You may have heard many news stories about the legal battle between Apple and the FBI over unlocking an iPhone that belonged to the San Bernardino shooter. However, that was just one battle in ...

OracleVM 3.3 / 3.4 : openssl (OVMSA-2016-0049) (SLOTH)

The remote OracleVM system is missing necessary patches to address critical security updates : - fix CVE-2016-2105 - possible overflow in base64 encoding - fix CVE-2016-2106 - possible overflow in EVPEncryptUpdate - fix CVE-2016-2107 - padding oracle in stitched AES-NI CBC-MAC - fix CVE-2016-2108...

CVE-2016-2850

Botan 1.11.x before 1.11.29 does not enforce TLS policy for 1 signature algorithms and 2 ECC curves, which allows remote attackers to conduct downgrade attacks via unspecified vectors...

Hacker Arrested after Exposing Flaws in Elections Site

A security researcher responsibly disclosed vulnerabilities in the poorly secured web domains of a Florida county elections, but he ended up in handcuffs on criminal hacking charges and jailed for six hours Wednesday. Security researcher David Michael Levin, 31, of Estero, Florida was charged wit...

openssl security update

1.0.1e-51.5 - fix CVE-2016-2105 - possible overflow in base64 encoding - fix CVE-2016-2106 - possible overflow in EVPEncryptUpdate - fix CVE-2016-2107 - padding oracle in stitched AES-NI CBC-MAC - fix CVE-2016-2108 - memory corruption in ASN.1 encoder - fix CVE-2016-2109 - possible DoS when readi...

Apple Transparency Report Government Requests for Data

Apple’s latest transparency report published on Wednesday shows a big increase in the number of law enforcement and government requests for account and device data. Publication of the report comes on the heels of the latest chapter in the Apple-FBI tussle over encryption and privacy. Tuesday’s...

China wants Apple's Source Code, but the Company Refused

In Brief Apple's head of legal has denied all rumors about providing its complete source code or any backdoor to the Chinese government. Apple officially confirmed that the Chinese government has asked Apple twice in the past two years to hand over the source code for its operating system, but th...

BlackBerry CEO Defends Lawful Access Principles, Supports Phone Hack

BlackBerry’s CEO made the company’s stance on lawful access requests clear this week and is defending actions to provide Canadian law enforcement with what it needed to decrypt communications between devices. The company’s CEO John Chen penned a statement on Monday, reiterating that one of...

Apple and FBI Faceoff at House Encryption Hearing

Representatives from Apple and the FBI testified Tuesday at a House Energy and Commerce Committee hearing on the ongoing encryption debate. Both vowed to work cooperatively to move past the current encryption impasse and find common ground. They also used the hearing to clarify stances on...

Google makes it mandatory for Chrome Apps to tell Users what Data they collect

In Brief Chrome apps and extensions make things easier, but they can also do terrible things like spy on web users and collect their personal data. But, now Google has updated its browser’s User Data Policy requiring all Chrome extension and app developers to disclose what data they collect...

Google Stresses Transparency in New Chrome Web Store Policies

Google last week put app developers on notice, urging them to comply with a new set of privacy policies that it plans on enforcing starting this summer designed to better promote transparency. The rules reflect an update to Google’s User Data Policy for the Chrome Web Store. The company has porte...

California Kills Phone Decryption Bill

Civil liberty groups and tech firms are celebrating the defeat of a controversial California bill that would have forced phone makers to decrypt their devices by court order. The proposed legislation, AB 1681, died when lawmakers refused to give the bill a vote. But opponents of the bill, who...

Canadian Police obtained Master Key to Crack BlackBerry Messenger Encryption

BlackBerry has long been known for its stance on mobile security, as it was the first mobile phone maker to provide end-to-end encryption. But a new report revealed that the company has provided a master backdoor to law enforcement in its secure devices since 2010. The Royal Canadian Mounted Poli...

samba: Samba based active directory domain controller does not enforce smb signing

It was discovered that Samba did not enforce Server Message Block SMB signing for clients using the SMB1 protocol. A man-in-the-middle attacker could use this flaw to modify traffic between a client and a server...

'Hacking Team' Loses License to Sell Surveillance Malware Outside Europe

Hacking Team – the infamous Italy-based spyware company that had more than 400 GB of its confidential data stolen last year – is facing another trouble. This time not from other hackers, but from its own government. Hacking Team is infamous for selling surveillance spyware to governments and...

Apple, Google Faced All Writs Act Orders

The American Civil Liberties Union has dug up more proof that from the get-go the FBI’s attempt to crack open an iPhone used by the San Bernardino shooter Syed Rizwan Farook was not just about the one phone. The ACLU found court documents and on Wednesday published an interactive map visualizing...

An iOS 0-day will lead to iCloud photos and videos in crack-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

There is a bad news, the Johns Hopkins University's Matthew Green, a Professor in the iOS encryption system found a 0-day vulnerability, which could allow a skilled attacker to intercept and decipher iMessages on. However, the good news is that this vulnerability is hard to exploit. Green explain...