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...

Yahoo Encrypts Data Center Communication Links

Yahoo certainly has taken its share of knocks during the past nine months of surveillance revelations and Snowden leaks for its encryption shortcomings. But the bruises are healing and the company is slowly working its way back into good graces. After months of being an encryption laggard, Yahoo...

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...

Encrypted Chat Service 'Cryptocat' released iOS app

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Adult Magazine Sued LeaseWeb for Hosting Pirated Websites, claiming $188M in Damages

Perfect 10, an Adult Magazine Publisher who previously accused Google, Amazon, RapidShare, Deposit File and many more companies for Copyright Infringement, has sued LEASEWEB Hosting provider this time. LEASEWEB is the former hosting provider of File Sharing website 'Megaupload', and Perfect 10...

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...

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...

Criminals rapidly migrating to new digital Currency 'Perfect Money' after Liberty Reserve takedown

There are so many ways to move money anonymously on the Internet and US Justice Department has declared war on currencies widely used by cyber criminals. Just after the Law Enforcement in 17 countries shuts down 'Liberty Reserve', a $6 billion digital money laundering operation, now the criminals...

Criminals rapidly migrating to new digital Currency 'Perfect Money' after Liberty Reserve takedown

There are so many ways to move money anonymously on the Internet and US Justice Department has declared war on currencies widely used by cyber criminals. Just after the Law Enforcement in 17 countries shuts down 'Liberty Reserve', a $6 billion digital money laundering operation, now the criminals...

[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...

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...

PT-2012-3838 · Libreoffice +2 · Libwpd +3

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: libwpd version 0.8.8 OpenOffice.org OOo versions prior to 3.4 Description: The issue allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted Wordperfect .WPD document that causes a negative array index to be used in the...

SSL Perfect Forward Secrecy Cipher Suites Supported

The remote host supports the use of SSL ciphers that offer Perfect Forward Secrecy PFS encryption. These cipher suites ensure that recorded SSL traffic cannot be broken at a future date if the server's private key is compromised. C Tenable Network Security, Inc. include"compat.inc"; if descriptio...

Using Spammers' Techniques to Beat Spam

Spammers’ own trickery has been used to develop an “effectively perfect” method for blocking the most common kind of spam, a team of computer scientists claims. Read the full article. New Scientist...

[G-SEC 46-2009] Computer Associates multiple products arbritary code execution

Computer Associates CA Anti-Virus Multiple products - arbitrary code execution Release mode : Coordinated Reference : GSEC-46-2009 - Computer Associates multiple products RCE WWW : http://blog.g-sec.lu/2009/10/computer-associates-multiple-products.html Vendor : http://www.ca.com Status : Patched...

Mandriva Update for libwpd MDKSA-2007:063 (libwpd)

Check for the Version of libwpd OpenVAS Vulnerability Test Mandriva Update for libwpd MDKSA-2007:063 libwpd Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright c 2009 Greenbone Networks GmbH, http://www.greenbone.net This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under t...