IE 12 to Support HSTS Encryption Protocol

Microsoft confirmed today it will support HTTPS Strict Transport Protocol HSTS in Internet Explorer 12, bringing its browser in line with other major vendors in its support of the protocol. Browsers supporting HSTS force any sessions sent over HTTP to be sent instead over HTTPS, encrypting...

Cyberespionage, Not Cyber Terror, is the Major Threat, Former NSA Director Says

CHANTILLY, VA–The list of threats on the Internet is long and getting longer each day. Cybercrime, nation-state attackers, cyber espionage and hacktivists all threaten the security and stability of the network and its users in one way or another. But the one threat that some experts have warned...

YAHOO! Now Encrypts Everything; Encrypted Yahoo Messenger Coming Soon

ON HIGH-PRIORITY YAHOO! is finally rolling out encryption implementation over their site and services in order to protect users. Yahoo is rapidly becoming one of the most aggressive supporters of encryption, as in January this year Yahoo enabled the HTTPS connections by default, that automaticall...

Matthew Green on the NSA and Crypto Backdoors

Dennis Fisher talks with Matthew Green of Johns Hopkins University about the paper he co-authored on the Extended Random extension for Dual EC DRBG and whether it could be considered a backdoor. Download: digitalunderground149.mp3...

Researchers explained How ANGRY BIRDS Sharing Your Personal Data

We are already aware about the fact that most probably every mobile app is collecting our data in one or the other form. Thanks to Edward Snowden, who provided the secret documents that revealed that the world's most popular Smartphone applications, including gaming apps such as Angry Birds, are...

Clapper: NSA Queries Databases for Information on U.S. Persons

UPDATE–The NSA searches the data it collects incidentally on Americans, including phone calls and emails, during the course of terrorism investigations. James Clapper, the director of national intelligence, confirmed the searches in a letter to Sen. Ron Wyden, the first time that such actions hav...

Extended Random Extension Made Cracking BSAFE Trivial

UPDATE: Known theoretical attacks against TLS using the troubled Dual EC random number generator— something an intelligence agency might try its hand at—are in reality a bit more challenging than we’ve been led to believe. The addition of the Extended Random extension to RSA Security’s BSAFE...

Second NSA Crypto Tool Found in RSA BSafe

A team of academics released a study on the maligned Dual EC DRBG algorithm used in RSA Security’s BSafe and other cryptographic libraries that includes new evidence that the National Security Agency used a second cryptographic tool alongside Dual EC DRBG in Bsafe to facilitate spying. Allegation...

NOT JUST ONE! RSA adopted Two NSA Backdoored Encryption Tools

The respected encryption and network security company RSA Security now a division of EMC, whose respect was already on stack after revelation by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden revealed that the NSA created a flawed random number generation system DualECDRBG, Dual Elliptic Curve, which the...

White House Releases Plan to End Section 215 Bulk Collection

The White House today unveiled a five-point plan to end the National Security Agency’s bulk collection of phone call metadata, preserving what it says is a balance between the intelligence community’s national security needs and the public’s desire to maintain its privacy. The proposal ends the...

White House Proposal Would End NSA Metadata Program

Privacy advocates are cautiously applauding the reports that the Obama administration will unveil a legislative proposal to end the National Security Agency’s collection of Americans’ bulk phone records, but are concerned what the fine print on that proposal might hold. “Given all the various way...

CVE-2014-2589

Cross-site scripting XSS vulnerability in the Dashboard Backend service stats/dashboard.jsp in SonicWall Network Security Appliance NSA 2400 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the sn parameter...

Dell SonicWALL NSA 2400 'stats/dashboard.jsp' Cross Site Scripting Vulnerability

Cross-site scripting XSS vulnerability in the Dashboard Backend service stats/dashboard.jsp in SonicWall Network Security Appliance NSA 2400 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the sn parameter. CVE: CVE-2014-2589 Last updated: March 12, 2018, 4:19 p.m...

Cross site scripting

Cross-site scripting XSS vulnerability in the Dashboard Backend service stats/dashboard.jsp in SonicWall Network Security Appliance NSA 2400 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the sn parameter...

CVE-2014-2589

Cross-site scripting XSS vulnerability in the Dashboard Backend service stats/dashboard.jsp in SonicWall Network Security Appliance NSA 2400 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the sn parameter...

CVE-2014-2589

CVE-2014-2589 describes a Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the Dashboard Backend service (stats/dashboard.jsp) of SonicWall Network Security Appliance (NSA) 2400. The issue allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the sn parameter. Documentation confirms the a...

NSA Hacked Servers of Chinese telecom Huawei, Stole Source Codes

The US Government was publicly accusing Chinese electronics manufacturer Huawei of espionage from the past few years. Ironically, it has now been revealed that the National Security Agency conducted a major offensive cyber operations against the Chinese government and networking company Huawei, i...

NSA Targets Sys Admins to Access Networks

The latest set of Snowden documents reveal details on perhaps the biggest no-brainer from the National Security Agency’s point of view during these nine months of leaks: the targeting of system administrators. Classified presentations, documents and notes portray the NSA as confident and...

Back off, NSA! Gmail now Encrypts every single Email

2014 - The Year for Encryption! Good News for Security & Privacy seekers, Gmail is now more secure than ever before. Google has announced that it has enhanced encryption for its Gmail email service to protect users from government cyber-spying; by removing the option to turn off HTTPS. So from...

Google Encrypts All Gmail Connections

Perhaps no company has been as vocal with its feelings about the revelations about the NSA’s collection methods as Google has, and the company has been making a series of changes to its infrastructure in recent months to make it more difficult for adversaries to snoop on users’ sessions. The...