Microsoft February Patch Tuesday : Two critical and Three Important Security Updates

Today Microsoft has released Security Bulletin Advanced Notification for February 2014 Patch Tuesday. The notification dictates five bulletins out of which two have critical Remote Code Execution and rest are important in aspect to severity of security flaw. A Remote Code Execution vulnerability...

98% of SSL enabled websites still using SHA-1 based weak Digital Certificates

The National Institute of Standards and Technology NIST had published a document on Jan 2011 that the SHA-1 algorithm will be risky and should be disallowed after year 2013, but it was recently noticed by Netcraft experts that NIST.gov website itself were using 2014 dated SSL certificate with SHA...

[Beast-Check] SSL/TLS BEAST Vulnerability Check

A small perl script that checks a target server whether it is prone to BEAST vulnerability via target preferred cipher. It assumes no workaround i.e. EMPTY FRAGMENT applied in target server. Some sources said this workaround was disabled by default for compatibility reasons. This may be the reaso...

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...

SuSE 11.2 / 11.3 Security Update : Mozilla NSS (SAT Patch Numbers 8484 / 8485)

"Mozilla NSS has been updated to 3.15.2 bnc847708 bringing various features and bugfixes : The main feature is TLS 1.2 support and its dependent algorithms. - Support for AES-GCM ciphersuites that use the SHA-256 PRF - MD2, MD4, and MD5 signatures are no longer accepted for OCSP or CRLs - Add...

SuSE 11.2 Security Update : Mozilla NSS (SAT Patch Number 8484)

"Mozilla NSS has been updated to 3.15.2 bnc847708 bringing various features and bugfixes : The main feature is TLS 1.2 support and its dependent algorithms. - Support for AES-GCM ciphersuites that use the SHA-256 PRF - MD2, MD4, and MD5 signatures are no longer accepted for OCSP or CRLs - Add...

Microsoft Warns Customers Away From RC4, SHA-1

The RC4 and SHA-1 algorithms have taken a lot of hits in recent years, with new attacks popping up on a regular basis. Many security experts and cryptographers have been recommending that vendors begin phasing the two out, and Microsoft on Tuesday said that is now recommending to developers that...

Security Advisory 2880823: Recommendation to discontinue use of SHA-1

Microsoft is recommending that customers and CA’s stop using SHA-1 for cryptographic applications, including use in SSL/TLS and code signing. Microsoft Security Advisory 2880823 has been released along with the policy announcement that Microsoft will stop recognizing the validity of SHA-1 based...

CVE-2013-5172

The kernel in Apple Mac OS X before 10.9 does not properly determine the output length for SHA-2 digest function calls, which allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service panic by triggering a digest operation, as demonstrated by an IPSec connection...

Code injection

The kernel in Apple Mac OS X before 10.9 does not properly determine the output length for SHA-2 digest function calls, which allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service panic by triggering a digest operation, as demonstrated by an IPSec connection...

CVE-2013-5172

The kernel in Apple Mac OS X before 10.9 does not properly determine the output length for SHA-2 digest function calls, which allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service panic by triggering a digest operation, as demonstrated by an IPSec connection...

CVE-2013-5172

The CVE-2013-5172 entry affects Apple macOS/iOS kernel code prior to macOS 10.9, where the output length for SHA-2 digest function calls is not properly determined. This can allow context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (panic) by triggering a digest operation, as demonstrated by...

APPLE-SA-2013-09-12-2 Safari 5.1.10

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 APPLE-SA-2013-09-12-2 Safari 5.1.10 Safari 5.1.10 is now available and addresses the following: JavaScriptCore Available for: Mac OS X v10.6.8, Mac OS X Server v10.6.8 Impact: Visiting a maliciously crafted website may lead to an unexpected applicatio...

APPLE-SA-2013-09-18-1 iTunes 11.1

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 APPLE-SA-2013-09-18-1 iTunes 11.1 iTunes 11.1 is now available and addresses the following: iTunes Available for: Windows 7, Vista, XP SP2 or later Impact: Visiting a maliciously crafted website may lead to an unexpected application termination or...

Silent Circle Moving Away From NIST Ciphers in Wake of NSA Revelations

The first major domino to fall in the crypto world after the NSA leaks by Edward Snowden began was the decision by Lavabit, a secure email provider, to shut down in August rather than comply with a government order. Shortly thereafter, Silent Circle, another provider of secure email and other...

[JBrute v0.9.4] Open Source Security tool to audit hashed passwords

JBrute is an open source tool written in Java to audit security and stronghold of stored password for several open source and commercial apps. It is focused to provide multi-platform support and flexible parameters to cover most of the possible password-auditing scenarios. Java Runtime version 1....

tipask问答系统2.0SQL时间盲注漏洞

简要描述： 其实我是来膜拜猪头子的 详细说明： 关于对get/post检测的部分，主要就是看猪头子大牛的： WooYun: tipask问答系统2.0 ajaxsearch二次编码注入漏洞 /model/question.php function ontag $tag = urldecode$this-get'2'; //二次编码绕过 //echo $tag; $encodeword = urlencode$tag; $navtitle = $tag . '-标签搜索'; $qstatus = $status = intval$this-get3; !$status && $qstatu...

Bitcoins - Secured by NSA designed Encryption or Backdoored ?

It's been nearly three months since Edward Snowden started telling the world about the National Security Agency's mass surveillance of global communications. After the last week report that the National Security Agency has leveraged its cooperative relationships with specific industry partners to...

Bitcoins - Secured by NSA designed Encryption or Backdoored ?

It’s been nearly three months since Edward Snowden started telling the world about the National Security Agency’s mass surveillance of global communications. After the last week report that the National Security Agency has leveraged its cooperative relationships with specific industry partners to...

CVE-2013-1649

Open-Xchange Server before 6.20.7 rev14, 6.22.0 before rev13, and 6.22.1 before rev14 uses the crypt and SHA-1 algorithms for password hashing, which makes it easier for context-dependent attackers to obtain cleartext passwords via a brute-force attack...