New IETF Group to Tackle TLS Implementation in Applications

The NSA surveillance scandal has created ripples all across the Internet, and the latest one is a new effort from the IETF to change the way that encryption is used in a variety of critical application protocols, including HTTP and SMTP. The new TLS application working group was formed to help...

TextSecure Integrated into CyanogenMod SMS App for Android

With the depths of domestic government surveillance still not fully realized, secure communications capabilities are at a premium, especially for the privacy conscious. Already, we’ve seen some services such as Lavabit and Silent Circle’s Silent Mail shudder operations rather than hand over...

Microsoft Expands Encryption Use in Cloud Services to Thwart Surveillance

In response to the growing set of revelations about the NSA’s surveillance methods and alleged compromise of some large technology vendors’ services, Microsoft is taking a number of steps to try and reassure customers about the integrity of the company’s offerings and to greatly expand the use of...

Matthew Green on How NSA Breaks SSL

In order for the National Security Agency to collect the massive amounts of communication it has from email and Web traffic, it needs to elude, leapfrog or bash through the barrier that is SSL. How it’s doing so is the real question, one that noted Johns Hopkins cryptographer Matthew Green wants...

Twitter Implements Perfect Forward Secrecy

Twitter took another step toward not only securing the privacy of its users’ communication over the social network, but in warding off the prying eyes of government surveillance with the implementation of Perfect Forward Secrecy. The technology thwarts the efforts of anyone who may be collecting...

EFF Encrypt the Web Report Shows Crypto Leaders, Laggards

There’s nothing like a little peer pressure to nudge someone toward doing the right thing. That’s the philosophy behind the Electronic Frontier Foundation’s Encrypt the Web Report, which examines the encryption capabilities of 18 leading Internet companies, including large carriers, social...

HTTP/2 Supports only HTTPS URIs

The head of the working group designing the next version of HTTP said the HTTP/2 protocol will work only with encrypted URIs. “I believe the best way that we can meet the goal of increasing use of TLS on the Web is to encourage its use by only using HTTP/2.0 with https:// URIs,” wrote Mark...

Debian Security Advisory DSA 2532-1 (libapache2-mod-rpaf - denial of service)

Sebastien Bocahu discovered that the reverse proxy add forward module for the Apache webserver is vulnerable to a denial of service attack through a single crafted request with many headers. OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $Id: deb25321.nasl 8972 2018-02-28 07:02:10Z cfischer $ Auto-generated from...

Animated Retention Policies/Modes

Objective To demonstrate Veeam Backup & Replication's different backup methods and their retention logic. Solution For information regarding Forward Incremental and Forever Forward Incremental , please see www.veeam.com/kb1932. For information regarding Reverse Incremental , please see...

CVE-2011-2942

A certain Red Hat patch to the brdeliver function in net/bridge/brforward.c in the Linux kernel 2.6.18 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux RHEL 5 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service NULL pointer dereference and system crash or possibly have unspecified other impact by leveraging...

j2ee external parameters of the reference implementation, The steering functions caused by the security Directory Access bypass security issue-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

j2ee external parameter references a URL for steering forward function to cause the security Directory Access bypass security issues with! //Recently issued a vulnerability, let me produce one doubts. Today just to achieve a bit of URL jump, find the problem cause is actually very simple. First...

AIX 7.1 TL 1 : sendmail1 (IV22963)

AIX system set up with stock sendmail will run arbitrary code through a users .forward. This apples to sendmailssl and sendmailnossl. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The text in the description was extracted from AIX Security Advisory sendmail1advisory.asc...

Arbitrary resource file download in urlrewrite.xml

panel:bgColor=e7f4fa NOTE: This bug report is for Confluence Server. Using Confluence Cloud? See the corresponding bug report|http://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFCLOUD-26888. panel There is an arbitrary resource file download vulnerability triggered by a third party library...

[SECURITY] Fedora 18 Update: libotr-3.2.1-1.fc18

Off-the-Record Messaging Library and Toolkit This is a library and toolkit which implements Off-the-Record OTR Messagi ng. OTR allows you to have private conversations over IM by providing Encryptio n, Authentication, Deniability and Perfect forward secrecy...

CVE-2012-3526

The reverse proxy add forward module modrpaf 0.5 and 0.6 for the Apache HTTP Server allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service server or application crash via multiple X-Forwarded-For headers in a request...

CVE-2012-3526

The reverse proxy add forward module modrpaf 0.5 and 0.6 for the Apache HTTP Server allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service server or application crash via multiple X-Forwarded-For headers in a request...

Fedora Update for libotr FEDORA-2012-11959

Check for the Version of libotr OpenVAS Vulnerability Test Fedora Update for libotr FEDORA-2012-11959 Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright c 2012 Greenbone Networks GmbH, http://www.greenbone.net This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the ter...

[SECURITY] Fedora 16 Update: libotr-3.2.1-1.fc16

Off-the-Record Messaging Library and Toolkit This is a library and toolkit which implements Off-the-Record OTR Messagi ng. OTR allows you to have private conversations over IM by providing Encryptio n, Authentication, Deniability and Perfect forward secrecy...

[SECURITY] Fedora 17 Update: libotr-3.2.1-1.fc17

Off-the-Record Messaging Library and Toolkit This is a library and toolkit which implements Off-the-Record OTR Messagi ng. OTR allows you to have private conversations over IM by providing Encryptio n, Authentication, Deniability and Perfect forward secrecy...

Scientific Linux Security Update : httpd on SL5.x

Problem description : A flaw was found in the Apache HTTP Server modproxy module. On sites where a reverse proxy is configured, a remote attacker could send a carefully crafted request that would cause the Apache child process handling that request to crash. On sites where a forward proxy is...