Google to Disable Weak SSLv3 and RC4 Protocols to Boost Internet Security

It is finally time to say GoodBye to the old and insecure Web security protocols. Citing the long history of weaknesses in the Secure Sockets Layer SSL 3.0 cryptographic protocol and the RC4 Cipher Suite, Google plans to disable support for both SSLv3 as well as RC4 stream cipher in its front-end...

Google Outlines Plans to Deprecate RC4, SSLv3

As expected, Google formally announced its intent to move away from the stream cipher RC4 and the SSLv3 protocol this week, citing a long history of weaknesses in both. Adam Langley, a security engineer for the company, announced the plans through a blog post on Thursday. While there isn’t a...

F5 Networks BIG-IP : SSL/TLS RC4 vulnerability (K16864) (Bar Mitzvah)

The RC4 algorithm, as used in the TLS protocol and SSL protocol, does not properly combine state data with key data during the initialization phase, which makes it easier for remote attackers to conduct plaintext-recovery attacks against the initial bytes of a stream by sniffing network traffic...

F5 BIG-IP - SSL/TLS RC4 vulnerability CVE-2015-2808

The remote host is missing a security patch. SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2015 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only CPE = "cpe:/h:f5:big-ip"; if description...

BSA-2015-007

Summary Security Advisory ID : BSA-2015-007 Component : RC4 Algorithm Revision : 6.0 N/A...

Dennis Fisher and Mike Mimoso Discuss the Week in News: Chinese Sanctions, Doing Away with RC4, and Mobile Pwn2Own

Dennis Fisher and Mike Mimoso talk about the potential US sanctions against China over cyberespionage, the browser vendors dumping RC4, the trouble at Mobile Pwn2Own and more security news of the week. Download: digitalunderground218.mp3 Music by Chris Gonsalves...

Google Chrome 45 Security Patches, Bug Bounty Awards

Tuesday turned out to be a busy day for browser makers. The three major vendors in the space—Google; Mozilla; and Microsoft—joined arms and announced their intent to stop support for the weakened RC4 encryption algorithm starting early next year. Google, having already announced it would pause...

Google, Mozilla End RC4 Support

Google, Microsoft and Mozilla today announced they’ve settled on a timeframe to permanently deprecate the shaky RC4 encryption algorithm. Attacks against RC4 are growing increasingly practical, rendering the algorithm more untrustworthy by the day. The browser makers plan to sever support for RC4...

Amazon Linux AMI : java-1.6.0-openjdk (ALAS-2015-586) (Bar Mitzvah) (Logjam)

Multiple flaws were discovered in the 2D, CORBA, JMX, Libraries and RMI components in OpenJDK. An untrusted Java application or applet could use these flaws to bypass Java sandbox restrictions. CVE-2015-4760 , CVE-2015-2628 , CVE-2015-4731 , CVE-2015-2590 , CVE-2015-4732 , CVE-2015-4733 A flaw wa...

CentOS Update for java CESA-2015:1526 centos7

Check the version of java SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2015 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription scriptoid"1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.882237";...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-2706-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2015 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS : openjdk-6 vulnerabilities (USN-2706-1) (Bar Mitzvah) (Logjam)

Several vulnerabilities were discovered in the OpenJDK JRE related to information disclosure, data integrity, and availability. An attacker could exploit these to cause a denial of service or expose sensitive data over the network. CVE-2015-2590, CVE-2015-2628, CVE-2015-4731, CVE-2015-4732,...

USN-2706-1: OpenJDK 6 vulnerabilities

Several vulnerabilities were discovered in the OpenJDK JRE related to information disclosure, data integrity, and availability. An attacker could exploit these to cause a denial of service or expose sensitive data over the network. CVE-2015-2590, CVE-2015-2628, CVE-2015-4731, CVE-2015-4732,...

Scientific Linux Security Update : java-1.6.0-openjdk on SL5.x, SL6.x, SL7.x i386/x86_64 (20150730) (Bar Mitzvah) (Logjam)

Multiple flaws were discovered in the 2D, CORBA, JMX, Libraries and RMI components in OpenJDK. An untrusted Java application or applet could use these flaws to bypass Java sandbox restrictions. CVE-2015-4760, CVE-2015-2628, CVE-2015-4731, CVE-2015-2590, CVE-2015-4732, CVE-2015-4733 A flaw was fou...

RHEL 5 / 6 / 7 : java-1.6.0-openjdk (RHSA-2015:1526)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 5 / 6 / 7 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2015:1526 advisory. The java-1.6.0-openjdk packages provide the OpenJDK 6 Java Runtime Environment and the OpenJDK 6 Java Software Development Kit...

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS : OpenJDK 7 vulnerabilities (USN-2696-1)

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-2696-1 advisory. Several vulnerabilities were discovered in the OpenJDK JRE related to information disclosure, data integrity, and availability. An attacker could exploit...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-2696-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2015 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

java security update

CentOS Errata and Security Advisory CESA-2015:1526 Updated java-1.6.0-openjdk packages that fix multiple security issues are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, 6, and 7. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having Important security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring...

Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: java-1.6.0-openjdk security update

Updated java-1.6.0-openjdk packages that fix multiple security issues are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, 6, and 7. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having Important security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base scores, which give detailed severity...

Updated java-1.8.0-openjdk package fixes security vulnerabilities

Multiple flaws were discovered in the 2D, CORBA, JMX, Libraries and RMI components in OpenJDK. An untrusted Java application or applet could use these flaws to bypass Java sandbox restrictions CVE-2015-4760, CVE-2015-2628, CVE-2015-4731, CVE-2015-2590, CVE-2015-4732, CVE-2015-4733. A flaw was fou...