Microsoft Brings Perfect Forward Secrecy to Windows

Microsoft yesterday added four cryptographic cipher suites to its default priority ordering list in Windows, a move that brings Perfect Forward Secrecy to the operating system. Update 3042058 is available for now only on the Microsoft Download Center, affording users the opportunity to test the...

VPN daemon written in Go: GoVPN

GoVPN is simple secure virtual private network daemon. It uses Diffie-Hellman Encrypted Key Exchange DH-EKE for mutual zero-knowledge peers authentication and authenticated encrypted data transport. It is written entirely in Go programming language . All packets captured on a network interface ar...

Reverse Shells With Terminal Support: revsh

revsh is a tool for establishing reverse shells with terminal support, reverse VPNs for advanced pivoting Pivoting , as well as arbitrary data tunneling. A reverse shell is a network connection that grants shell access to a remote host. As opposed to other remote login tools such as telnet and ss...

UBUNTU-CVE-2014-9814

ImageMagick allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service NULL pointer dereference via a crafted wpg file...

Facebook Yahoo Require-Recipient-Valid-Since SMTP Extension

Yahoo’s decision in June 2013 to reset accounts that had been dormant for 12 months and make them available to other users raised a number of security and privacy red flags. It was feared that the potential for identity theft would grow given that if an old Yahoo account was linked to another...

SSL/TLS: Perfect Forward Secrecy Cipher Suites Missing

The remote service is missing support for SSL/TLS cipher suites supporting Perfect Forward Secrecy. SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2014 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier:...

China Develops Facial Recognition Payment System with Near-Perfect Accuracy

In an intent to move one step forward from others, China is planning to launch a facial recognition payment application with near-perfect accuracy that enables users to authorize their online transactions just by showing a picture of themselves. Chinese researchers from the Chongqing-based resear...

CVE-2014-5625

The Perfect Kick aka com.gamegou.PerfectKick.google application 1.3.0 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...

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The Perfect Kick aka com.gamegou.PerfectKick.google application 1.3.0 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-2014-5625

The CVE-2014-5625 issue affects The Perfect Kick app (com.gamegou.PerfectKick.google) on Android 1.3.0, where SSL/TLS servers are not verified due to missing X.509 certificate validation. This enables MITM attackers to spoof servers and exfiltrate sensitive data via crafted certificates. The prov...

CVE-2014-5625

The Perfect Kick aka com.gamegou.PerfectKick.google application 1.3.0 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...

Amazon CloudFront Turns On Perfect Forward Secrecy

Add Amazon to the growing list of technology providers ensuring that its encryption capabilities exceed a minimum standard. Yesterday, the company announced that its web content delivery platform Amazon CloudFront had turned on Perfect Forward Secrecy, in addition to a number of changes designed ...

Facebook Says 95 Percent of Notification Email Encrypted

All that’s missing from the organic encrypt the web movement seems to be a hashtag. Otherwise, no one can accuse major web providers of slacking as leading players such as Microsoft and Yahoo, prompted by the Snowden leaks, have made noteworthy leaps in the last 15 months to encrypt everything fr...

Microsoft Expands TLS, Forward Secrecy Support

Microsoft is no exception when it comes to large technology providers committing to encrypting the services its users depend on. Today, the company announced an update on the progress it has made in engineering those changes, including the news that Outlook.com, its web-based email service,...

WordPress to Deploy SSL on All its Sites by End of 2014

The movement by technology companies to encrypt their respective corners of the Internet continues to gain steam as more and more are enabling SSL and other encryption technologies such as Perfect Forward Secrecy to ward off surveillance and enhance the privacy and security of user data. WordPres...

SMTP STARTTLS Deployments Better than Expected

As more service providers understand and embrace the importance of encrypting online communication, certain technologies are being elevated to the forefront of conversations. Perfect Forward Secrecy and HTTP Strict Transport Security HSTS are two that generally top most lists, but another, SMTP...

TLS 1.3 Has Consensus to Deprectate RSA Key Transport

The IETF working group responsible for the TLS 1.3 standard is closing in on a decision to remove RSA key transport cipher suites from the protocol. Decades-old RSA-based handshakes don’t cut it anymore, according to experts, who are anxious to put a modern protocol in place, one that can fend of...

SSL/TLS: Report Perfect Forward Secrecy (PFS) Cipher Suites

This routine reports all SSL/TLS cipher suites accepted by a service which are supporting Perfect Forward Secrecy PFS. SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2014 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders...

OpenSSL TLS heartbeat extension read overflow discloses sensitive information

Overview OpenSSL 1.0.1 and 1.0.2 beta contain a vulnerability that could disclose sensitive private information to an attacker. This vulnerability is commonly referred to as "heartbleed." Description OpenSSL versions 1.0.1 through 1.0.1f and 1.0.2 beta through 1.0.2-beta1 contain a flaw in its...

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...