Padding Oracle Crypto Research Prompts Confusion, Dissenting Opinions on Severity

Few things tend to spark debates and controversy in the security community like a new piece of cryptographic research. The paper by a group of academic researchers on an improvement to a padding oracle attack on certain hardware security tokens publicized this week is no different, with RSA...

Citing Terms Of Service, Google Takes Down Blog Of Iranian Security Researcher

An Iranian man who revealed a vulnerability in a widely used point of sale POS system in Iran had his blog confiscated by Google, which cited violations of its Terms of Service. A Google spokesman acknowledged that the company pulled down the Blogger site that Khosrow Zarefarid, an Iranian IT...

Secure Boot in Windows 8 Worries Researchers

Windows 8, like Windows 7 and Vista before it, is being touted as the most secure version of Windows ever. In past releases, many of the security improvements have come through exploit mitigations such as ASLR and DEP and better software security practices during development. In Windows 8, howeve...

Nate Lawson on Crypto Flaws, Web Application Security and Selling Hardware Bugs

Dennis Fisher talks with Nate Lawson of Root Labs about the proliferation of crypto flaws in Web applications and the market for hardware security bugs. Download Subscribe to the Digital Underground podcast on Podcast audio courtesy of sykboy65...

Charney plugs Microsoft end-to-end trust at RSA Conference

Scott Charney used his keynote speech at the RSA Conference on Tuesday to talk up a variety of hardware and software-based technologies meant to infuse the Internet with more trust. Charney, the head of Microsoft’s Trustworthy Computing team, talked about the need for greater adoption of TPMs, co...

Talking about after the invasion of the hardware destruction method-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

| Internetthe field of security, one foot magic ridge, and then strong fortress also has his deadly colony, hackersarttoday, was born many kinds of means of attack, and in front of the defense method is endless, but whether it is anti-both, all overlooked an important aspect-that is, hardware...

CVE-2004-0320

Unknown vulnerability in nCipher Hardware Security Modules HSM 1.67.x through 1.99.x allows local users to access secrets stored in the module's run-time memory via certain sequences of commands...

CVE-2004-0320

CVE-2004-0320 concerns nCipher Hardware Security Modules (HSM) versions 1.67.x–1.99.x. It describes a local-access flaw where an attacker can access secrets stored in the module’s run-time memory via certain sequences of commands. The publicly stated impact is partial confidentiality with local a...

CVE-2004-0320

Unknown vulnerability in nCipher Hardware Security Modules HSM 1.67.x through 1.99.x allows local users to access secrets stored in the module's run-time memory via certain sequences of commands...

nCipher Advisory #6: Access control defects in PKCS#11 keys

nCipher Security Advisory No. 6 Access control defects in PKCS11 keys -------------------------------------- SUMMARY ======= As a function of internal QA testing, nCipher has identified that, under certain unusual circumstances, keys created by the nCipher PKCS11 library, which should be secure,...

nCipher Security Advisory #2: SNMP vulnerabilities

SUMMARY ======= SNMP agents supplied by nCipher, as well as those required to run other nCipher SNMP aupport software, could be vulnerable to buffer overflow attacks including denial of service and privilege elevation. BACKGROUND ========== nCipher supplies a range of Hardware Security Modules HS...

PT-2001-2103 · Valicert · Valicert Enterprise Validation Authority (Eva) Administration Server

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: ValiCert Enterprise Validation Authority EVA Administration Server versions 3.3 through 4.2.1 Description: The issue arises from the use of insufficiently random data. This affects two main areas: 1 the generation of session tokens for HSMs,...