Authentication flaw

The Apache Qpid Broker for Java can be configured to use different so called AuthenticationProviders to handle user authentication. Among the choices are the SCRAM-SHA-1 and SCRAM-SHA-256 AuthenticationProvider types. It was discovered that these AuthenticationProviders in Apache Qpid Broker for...

CVE-2016-8741

The Apache Qpid Broker for Java can be configured to use different so called AuthenticationProviders to handle user authentication. Among the choices are the SCRAM-SHA-1 and SCRAM-SHA-256 AuthenticationProvider types. It was discovered that these AuthenticationProviders in Apache Qpid Broker for...

Patch Tuesday - May 2017

It's a relatively light month as far as Patch Tuesdays go, with Microsoft issuing fixes for a total of seven vulnerabilities as part of their standard update program. However, an eighth, highly critical vulnerability CVE-2017-0290 that had some of the security community buzzing over the weekend w...

Microsoft Makes it Official, Cuts off SHA-1 Support in IE, Edge

Lost in yesterday’s shuffle of emergency updates and regularly scheduled monthly patches was Microsoft’s announcement that it was officially cutting off SHA-1 support in Internet Explorer 11 and Edge. Going forward, both browsers will block webpages signed with a SHA-1 TLS or SSL certificate from...

Microsoft Windows Monthly Rollup (KB4019215)

This host is missing a critical security update monthly rollup according to microsoft KB4019215. SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2017 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-onl...

Microsoft Fixes Malware Protection Engine and Several 0-Day Vulnerabilities, and Deprecates SHA-1

Hours before today’s Patch Tuesday release on the eve of May 8, Microsoft released an emergency updated to fix a vulnerability in their Malware Protection Engine. This critical vulnerability allows an attacker to take complete control of the victim's machine by just sending an e-mail attachment...

May 9, 2017—KB4019213 (Security-only update)

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May 9, 2017—KB4019264 (Monthly Rollup)

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Description of the security update for Office Web Apps Server 2013: April 11, 2017

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GitHub Enterprise < 2.8.10 Multiple Vulnerabilities

GitHub Enterprise is prone to multiple vulnerabilities. SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2017 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:/a:github:githubenterprise";...

Insecure Password Hashing

fh-wfm-user currently uses SHA-1 to hash passwords. This is an insecure algorithm and was deprecated by the National Institute of Standards and Technology NIST in 2011...

Google Chrome 57 Browser Update Patches 'High' Severity Flaws

Google released an updated version of its Chrome browser on Thursday to fix nine high-severity vulnerabilities that if exploited could allow adversaries to take control of targeted systems. As part of the update, Google thanked nearly two dozen bug hunters with bug bounty payments totaling $38,00...

Firefox 52 Expands Non-Secure HTTP Warnings, Enables SHA-1 Deprecation

Mozilla fixed 28 vulnerabilities, including some that could result in a crash and the bypass of ASLR and DEP, when it released Firefox 52 on Tuesday. Seven of the vulnerabilities are considered critical, according to an advisory posted by the Mozilla Foundation. One of those vulnerabilities would...

Torvalds Downplays SHA-1 Threat to Git

When researchers demonstrated the first practical collision attack for the cryptographic hash function SHA-1 last week, they also identified related vulnerabilities impacted by the now-compromised algorithm. According to the SHAttered research post, co-authored by Google and a host of cryptograph...

Threatpost News Wrap, February 24, 2017

Mike Mimoso and Chris Brook recap RSA and discuss the news of the week including the impact of Cloudflare’s “Cloudbleed” bug, Google breaking SHA-1, and more. Download: ThreatpostNewsWrapFebruary242017.mp3 Music by Chris Gonsalves...

First Practical SHA-1 Collision Attack Arrives

Researchers unveiled on Thursday the first practical collision attack for the 22-year old cryptographic hash function SHA-1. While long expected, news of the attack, dubbed ‘SHAttered,’ should further accelerate the urgency of sunsetting of the maligned algorithm. Researchers from Google, Elie...

SHA-1 Collisions Research

Today, a group of eight researchers from across the security industry released a research report on SHA-1 that demonstrates for the first time, a “hash collision” for the full SHA-1 hash algorithm called “SHAttered”. This is a significant step toward understanding this type of security issue, a...

SHA-1 Collisions Research

Today, a group of eight researchers from across the security industry released a research report on SHA-1 that demonstrates for the first time, a “hash collision” for the full SHA-1 hash algorithm called “SHAttered”. This is a significant step toward understanding this type of security issue, a...

Google Achieves First-Ever Successful SHA-1 Collision Attack

SHA-1, Secure Hash Algorithm 1, a very popular cryptographic hashing function designed in 1995 by the NSA, is officially dead after a team of researchers from Google and the CWI Institute in Amsterdam announced today submitted the first ever successful SHA-1 collision attack. SHA-1 was designed i...

MongoDB Security Audit: mongoaudit

MongoDB Security Audit mongoaudit is a CLI tool for auditing MongoDB servers, detecting poor security settings and performing automated penetration testing. It is widely known that there are quite a few holes in MongoDB’s default configuration settings. This fact, combined with abundant lazy syst...