Turing Award — Inventors of Modern Cryptography Win $1 Million Cash Prize

And the Winners of this year's Turing Award are: Whitfield Diffie and Martin E. Hellman. The former chief security officer at Sun Microsystems Whitfield Diffie and the professor at Stanford University Martin E. Hellman won the 2015 ACM Turing Award, which is frequently described as the "Nobel Pri...

Unjam the logjam

Security Unjam the logjam Share June 9th, 2015 When a browser and website communicate over a secure connection, they encrypt and decrypt the data using a shared symmetric encryption key; the same key is used for encryption and decryption. In order for the browser and server to make sure they use...

OpenJDK: insufficient hardening of RSA-CRT implementation (JCE, 8071726)

It was found that the RSA implementation in the JCE component in OpenJDK did not follow recommended practices for implementing RSA signatures...

OpenJDK: insufficient hardening of RSA-CRT implementation (JCE, 8071726)

It was found that the RSA implementation in the JCE component in OpenJDK did not follow recommended practices for implementing RSA signatures...

MS KB3045755: Update to Improve PKU2U Authentication

The remote Windows host is missing a security update that improves the authentication used by the Public Key Cryptography User-to-User PKU2U security support provider SSP. C Tenable Network Security, Inc. include"compat.inc"; if description scriptid82779; scriptversion"1.3"; scriptcvsdate"Date:...

NTP Project ntpd reference implementation contains multiple vulnerabilities

Overview NTP Project ntpd reference implementation accepts unauthenticated packets with symmetric key cryptography and does not protect symmetric associations against denial of service attacks. Description CVE-2015-1798, bug 2779:In NTP4 installations utilizing symmetric key authentication,...

Fedora Update for libtomcrypt FEDORA-2013-14488

Check for the Version of libtomcrypt OpenVAS Vulnerability Test Fedora Update for libtomcrypt FEDORA-2013-14488 Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright c 2013 Greenbone Networks GmbH, http://www.greenbone.net This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it und...

Bitcoin's Wallet Service Instawallet Hacked, suspended indefinitely

The digital currency Bitcoin has suffered yet another hack. Bitcoin wallet site Instawallet has been taken offline after a security compromise, has suspended its service indefinitely. Instawallet didn't say in a notice on its website how many bitcoins were stolen after hackers fraudulently access...

Bitcoin's Wallet Service Instawallet Hacked, suspended indefinitely

The digital currency Bitcoin has suffered yet another hack. Bitcoin wallet site Instawallet has been taken offline after a security compromise, has suspended its service indefinitely. Instawallet didn't say in a notice on its website how many bitcoins were stolen after hackers fraudulently access...

jbossws: Prone to Bleichenbacher attack against to be distributed symmetric key

A flaw was found in JBoss web services where the services used a weak symmetric encryption protocol, PKCS1 v1.5. An attacker could use this weakness in chosen-ciphertext attacks to recover the symmetric key and conduct further attacks...

openssl: CMS and PKCS#7 Bleichenbacher attack

The implementation of Cryptographic Message Syntax CMS and PKCS 7 in OpenSSL before 0.9.8u and 1.x before 1.0.0h does not properly restrict certain oracle behavior, which makes it easier for context-dependent attackers to decrypt data via a Million Message Attack MMA adaptive chosen ciphertext...

Scientific Linux Security Update : ntp on SL4.x i386/x86_64

A buffer overflow flaw was discovered in the ntpd daemon's NTPv4 authentication code. If ntpd was configured to use public key cryptography for NTP packet authentication, a remote attacker could use this flaw to send a specially crafted request packet that could crash ntpd or, potentially, execut...

Microsoft Releases Automatic Updater for Certificate Revocation Lists, Plans to Invalidate Short RSA Keys

As part of its response to the Flame malware and its usage of a forged Microsoft certificate to sign malicious files, Microsoft has changed the way that Windows handles certificates, releasing an automatic updater function that will recognize and flag untrusted certificates. The new functionality...

DEBIAN-CVE-2012-0884

The implementation of Cryptographic Message Syntax CMS and PKCS 7 in OpenSSL before 0.9.8u and 1.x before 1.0.0h does not properly restrict certain oracle behavior, which makes it easier for context-dependent attackers to decrypt data via a Million Message Attack MMA adaptive chosen ciphertext...

UBUNTU-CVE-2012-0884

The implementation of Cryptographic Message Syntax CMS and PKCS 7 in OpenSSL before 0.9.8u and 1.x before 1.0.0h does not properly restrict certain oracle behavior, which makes it easier for context-dependent attackers to decrypt data via a Million Message Attack MMA adaptive chosen ciphertext...

Cryptosystems Showing Signs of 'Wear and Tear'

SAN FRANCISCO– It’s been an interesting year in the cryptography world, with new attacks on several algorithms, continued problems with hash functions and the recent research on weak RSA keys. With all of that as a backdrop, some of the brightest minds in the field, gathered here for the RSA...

(krb5kdc): Double-free flaw by handling error messages upon receiving certain AS_REQ's (MITKRB5-SA-2011-003)

Double free vulnerability in the prepareerroras function in doasreq.c in the Key Distribution Center KDC in MIT Kerberos 5 aka krb5 1.7 through 1.9, when the PKINIT feature is enabled, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service daemon crash or possibly execute arbitrary code via an edat...

Sony PlayStation 3 hacked, PS3 jailbreak Fail0verflow method !

Sony PlayStation 3 hacked, PS3 jailbreak Fail0verflow method. Sony PlayStation 3 has successfully been hacked by a team of hackers named fail0verflow thanks to its poor public key cryptography. The hacker group demonstrated their hacking tricks at the Chaos Communication Conference 27C3 in 45...

VMSA-2010-0009 : ESXi ntp and ESX Service Console third-party updates

a. Service Console update for COS kernel Updated COS package 'kernel' addresses the security issues that are fixed through versions 2.6.18-164.11.1. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project cve.mitre.org has assigned the names CVE-2009-2695, CVE-2009-2908, CVE-2009-3228, CVE-2009-3286,...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : ntp (MDVSA-2009:309)

Multiple vulnerabilities has been found and corrected in ntp : Requesting peer information from a malicious remote time server may lead to an unexpected application termination or arbitrary code execution CVE-2009-0159. A buffer overflow flaw was discovered in the ntpd daemon's NTPv4 authenticati...