The vulnerability of Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance’s network firewall, which allows a hacker to trigger a service failure.

The vulnerability of Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance’s network interface layer is related to resource management errors. Exploiting this vulnerability can allow attackers to cause service interruptions by sending specially crafted OSPFv2 packets...

Black Hat 2015 Going Dark Cryptography Presentation

LAS VEGAS – Try as they might, technologists are struggling to find a feasible way to solve the government’s and law enforcement’s “Going Dark” crypto issue. Cryptographer Matthew Green and D.C. intellectual property attorney James Denaro today during a talk at the Black Hat conference made no...

Threat Outbreak Alert RuleID6396: Email Messages Distributing Malicious Software on June 6, 2016

Medium Alert ID: 40056 First Published: 2015 July 20 20:34 GMT Last Updated: 2016 June 7 11:36 GMT Version: 70 Summary Cisco Security has detected significant activity related to spam email messages distributing malicious software. Email messages that are related to this threat RuleID6396 and...

Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance OSPFv2 Denial of Service Vulnerability

The Cisco ASA 5500 Series Adaptive Security Appliances are modular platforms for delivering security and VPN services, providing firewall, IPS, anti-X, and VPN services. A security vulnerability exists in the OSPFv2 code of the Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance, which can be exploited by an...

Appeals Court Rules NSA Metadata Collection Not Authorized by Section 215

The United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit ruled Thursday that the Patriot Act does not authorize the bulk collection of phone records by the NSA. The ruling undermines the key foundation upon which the federal government’s phone metadata surveillance program is built, Section 215 ...

Unspecified Vulnerability in Squid Server Certificate Validation

Squid full name Squid Cache is a suite of proxy server and web caching server software. The software provides features such as caching the World Wide Web, filtering traffic, and proxying the Internet. A security vulnerability exists in Squid that stems from the program's failure to properly...

squid -- client-first SSL-bump does not correctly validate X509 server certificate

Squid security advisory 2015:1 reports: Squid configured with client-first SSL-bump does not correctly validate X509 server certificate domain / hostname fields. The bug is important because it allows remote servers to bypass client certificate validation. Some attackers may also be able to use...

CVE-2014-8690

Multiple cross-site scripting XSS vulnerabilities in Exponent CMS before 2.1.4 patch 6, 2.2.x before 2.2.3 patch 9, and 2.3.x before 2.3.1 patch 4 allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the 1 PATHINFO, the 2 src parameter in a none action to index.php, or the 3 "First...

CVE-2014-8690

Multiple cross-site scripting XSS vulnerabilities in Exponent CMS before 2.1.4 patch 6, 2.2.x before 2.2.3 patch 9, and 2.3.x before 2.3.1 patch 4 allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the 1 PATHINFO, the 2 src parameter in a none action to index.php, or the 3 "First...

UBUNTU-CVE-2014-9670

Multiple integer signedness errors in the pcfgetencodings function in pcf/pcfread.c in FreeType before 2.5.4 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service integer overflow, NULL pointer dereference, and application crash via a crafted PCF file that specifies negative values for the first...

CVE-2014-4494

Springboard in Apple iOS before 8.1.3 does not properly validate signatures when determining whether to solicit an app trust decision from the user, which allows attackers to bypass intended first-launch restrictions by leveraging access to an enterprise distribution certificate for signing a...

Design/Logic Flaw

Springboard in Apple iOS before 8.1.3 does not properly validate signatures when determining whether to solicit an app trust decision from the user, which allows attackers to bypass intended first-launch restrictions by leveraging access to an enterprise distribution certificate for signing a...

Apple TV and iOS Enterprise Signature App Security Bypass Vulnerability

Apple iOS is the latest operating system for Apple's iPhone and iPod touch devices. Apple TV is Apple's way of allowing photos, videos and music from PCs and iPods to be transmitted wirelessly to a TV in high definition. A security vulnerability exists in the Apple TV and iOS Enterprise Signature...

CVE-2013-4753

CVE-2013-4753 affects Claroline 1.11.9 and earlier. The vulnerability is multiple XSS flaws triggered by user input in three fields: (1) Search in inbox (messaging/messagebox.php), (2) First name in auth/profile.php, (3) Speakers in rqAdd action (calendar/agenda.php). The root cause is improper h...

The offline cookbook

Update: Together with Udacity I created a free offline-first interactive course. It involves taking an online-only site to full offline-first glory. Many of the patterns in this article are used. When AppCache arrived on the scene it gave us a couple of patterns to make content work offline. If...

National Security Letters Challenged in Ninth Circuit Court

In the Ninth Circuit Court in San Francisco Wednesday morning, the Electronic Frontier Foundation’s EFF Kurt Opsahl urged the federal appeals court to uphold a lower court’s ruling that national security letters NSLs are unconstitutional. Regardless whether the ruling is upheld, the matter of NSL...

Twitter Files Suit Over Government Restrictions on National Security Letter Data

Twitter has filed a lawsuit in federal court asking that the United States Department of Justice’s prohibitions on publishing the number and kind of government requests for data the company receives be declared unconstitutional. The suit claims that the rules infringe on Twitter’s right to free...

CVE-2014-6802

The First Assembly NLR aka com.subsplash.thechurchapp.firstassemblynlr application 2.8.0 for Android does not verify X.509 certificates from SSL servers, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to spoof servers and obtain sensitive information via a crafted certificate...

CVE-2014-6802

The First Assembly NLR aka com.subsplash.thechurchapp.firstassemblynlr application 2.8.0 for Android does not verify X.509 certificates from SSL servers, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to spoof servers and obtain sensitive information via a crafted certificate...

CVE-2014-6802

The First Assembly NLR Android app (package com.subsplash.thechurchapp.firstassemblynlr) version 2.8.0 does not verify X.509 certificates from SSL servers, enabling MITM attackers to spoof servers and obtain sensitive information via a crafted certificate. This is described consistently across th...