EFAIL Opens Up Encrypted Email to Prying Eyes

A set of vulnerabilities in the encryption technologies used to secure sensitive emails threatens to expose corporate communications as well as the messages of at-risk users such as journalists, political dissidents and whistleblowers operating in hostile environments. However, there is some deba...

Details on a New PGP Vulnerability

A new PGP vulnerability was announced today. Basically, the vulnerability makes use of the fact that modern e-mail programs allow for embedded HTML objects. Essentially, if an attacker can intercept and modify a message in transit, he can insert code that sends the plaintext in a URL to a remote...

Here's How eFail Attack Works Against PGP and S/MIME Encrypted Emails

With a heavy heart, security researchers have early released the details of a set of vulnerabilities discovered in email clients for two widely used email encryption standards—PGP and S/MIME—after someone leaked their paper on the Internet, which was actually scheduled for tomorrow. PGP and S/MIM...

PGP and S/MIME protected emails prone to exposure

By Waqas PGP and S/MIME protocols are used to ensure that emails This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: PGP and S/MIME protected emails prone to exposure...

Critical PGP Vulnerability

EFF is reporting that a critical vulnerability has been discovered in PGP and S/MIME. No details have been published yet, but one of the researchers wrote: We'll publish critical vulnerabilities in PGP/GPG and S/MIME email encryption on 2018-05-15 07:00 UTC. They might reveal the plaintext of...

CVE-2017-17689

The S/MIME specification allows a Cipher Block Chaining CBC malleability-gadget attack that can indirectly lead to plaintext exfiltration, aka EFAIL. Mitigation The easiest way to mitigate this vulnerability is not to use HTML emails. If you really need to use them ensure that MUA clients disable...

Critical Flaws in PGP and S/MIME Tools Can Reveal Encrypted Emails in Plaintext

Note—the technical details of the vulnerabilities introduced in this article has now been released, so you should also read our latest article to learn how the eFail attack works and what users can do to prevent themselves. An important warning for people using widely used email encryption...

OpenPGP, S/MIME Mail Client Vulnerabilities

The CERT Coordination Center CERT/CC has released information on email client vulnerabilities that can reveal plaintext versions of OpenPGP- and S/MIME-encrypted emails. A remote attacker could exploit these vulnerabilities to obtain sensitive information. NCCIC encourages users and administrator...

OpenPGP and S/MIME mail client vulnerabilities

Overview Mail clients may leak plaintext messages while decrypting OpenPGP and S/MIME messages. Description Email clients supporting the OpenPGP or S/MIME standards may be vulnerable to a CBC/CFB gadget attack which may allow an attacker to inject content into an encrypted email which would...

Cisco ASR StarOS IPsec Manager Denial of Service Vulnerability (cisco-sa-20180418-starosasr)

According to its self-reported version and model number, the remote Cisco ASR device is affected by a denial of service vulnerability. Please see the included Cisco BID and the Cisco Security Advisory for more information. C Tenable Network Security, Inc. include"compat.inc"; if description...

Who is doing what on your network?

Over the past few months, while talking to customers, the topic of Zero Trust Architecture keeps coming up. Seemingly everyone is thinking of implementing the model - which we fully encourage! One of the core components of the principle is the ability to inspect and log all network and system...

SUSE-SU-2018:1074-1 Security update for perl

This update for perl fixes the following issues: Security issues fixed: - CVE-2018-6913: Fixed space calculation issues in pppack.c bsc1082216. - CVE-2018-6798: Fixed heap buffer overflow in regexec.c bsc1082233. - CVE-2018-6797: Fixed sharp-s regexp overflow bsc1082234...

CVE-2017-17257

Huawei AR120-S V200R006C10, V200R007C00, V200R008C20, V200R008C30, AR1200 V200R006C10, V200R006C13, V200R007C00, V200R007C01, V200R007C02, V200R008C20, V200R008C30, AR1200-S V200R006C10, V200R007C00, V200R008C20, V200R008C30, AR150 V200R006C10, V200R007C00, V200R007C01, V200R007C02, V200R008C20,...

Null pointer dereference

Huawei AR120-S V200R006C10, V200R007C00, V200R008C20, V200R008C30, AR1200 V200R006C10, V200R006C13, V200R007C00, V200R007C01, V200R007C02, V200R008C20, V200R008C30, AR1200-S V200R006C10, V200R007C00, V200R008C20, V200R008C30, AR150 V200R006C10, V200R007C00, V200R007C01, V200R007C02, V200R008C20,...

CVE-2017-17251

Huawei AR120-S V200R006C10, V200R007C00, V200R008C20, V200R008C30, AR1200 V200R006C10, V200R006C13, V200R007C00, V200R007C01, V200R007C02, V200R008C20, V200R008C30, AR1200-S V200R006C10, V200R007C00, V200R008C20, V200R008C30, AR150 V200R006C10, V200R007C00, V200R007C01, V200R007C02, V200R008C20,...

CVE-2017-17258

Huawei AR120-S V200R006C10, V200R007C00, V200R008C20, V200R008C30, AR1200 V200R006C10, V200R006C13, V200R007C00, V200R007C01, V200R007C02, V200R008C20, V200R008C30, AR1200-S V200R006C10, V200R007C00, V200R008C20, V200R008C30, AR150 V200R006C10, V200R007C00, V200R007C01, V200R007C02, V200R008C20,...

Teaming up in the war on tech support scams

Editors note: Erik Wahlstrom spoke about the far-reaching impact of tech support scams and the need for industry-wide cooperation in his RSA Conference 2018 talk Tech Scams: Its Time to Release the Hounds. Social engineering attacks like tech support scams are so common because theyre so effectiv...

The vulnerability of the S Boot loader of the Samsung mobile operating system allows a hacker to execute arbitrary code.

The vulnerability of the S Boot loader of the Samsung mobile operating system exists due to insufficient validation of input data. Exploiting this vulnerability could allow a hacker to execute arbitrary code...

CVE-2018-10225

thinkphp 3.1.3 has SQL Injection via the index.php s parameter...

CVE-2018-6413

There is a buffer overflow in the Hikvision Camera DS-2CD9111-S of V4.1.2 build 160203 and before, and this vulnerability allows remote attackers to launch a denial of service attack service interruption via a crafted network setting interface request...