[SECURITY] Fedora 20 Update: nss-3.15.3.1-1.fc20

Network Security Services NSS is a set of libraries designed to support cross-platform development of security-enabled client and server applications. Applications built with NSS can support SSL v2 and v3, TLS, PKCS 5, PKCS 7, PKCS 11, PKCS 12, S/MIME, X.509 v3 certificates, and other security...

[SECURITY] Fedora 20 Update: firefox-26.0-3.fc20

Mozilla Firefox is an open-source web browser, designed for standards compliance, performance and portability...

Fedora Update for firefox FEDORA-2013-23127

Check for the Version of firefox OpenVAS Vulnerability Test Fedora Update for firefox FEDORA-2013-23127 Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright C 2013 Greenbone Networks GmbH, http://www.greenbone.net This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the...

[SECURITY] Fedora 19 Update: firefox-26.0-2.fc19

Mozilla Firefox is an open-source web browser, designed for standards compliance, performance and portability...

FreeBSD Bans Intel, Via Chips

FreeBSD, the open-source operating system, announced that it will no longer support Intel’s RdRand and Via Technology’s Padlock on-chip random number generators RNGs moving forward in new versions of the UNIX-like operating system. The move apparently follows reports from earlier this year that t...

A Proven Strategy for Implementing Vendor Management Programs

Every regulated industry includes a requirement for managing third-party risk. Some industries are further along the path and have more mature processes than others. However, there are tried and true methodologies and standards established by those early movers that we can utilize across other...

wireshark: Invalid free in the DCP ETSI dissector (wnpa-sec-2013-41)

The dissectpft function in epan/dissectors/packet-dcp-etsi.c in the DCP ETSI dissector in Wireshark 1.6.x before 1.6.16, 1.8.x before 1.8.8, and 1.10.0 does not validate a certain fragment length value, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service application crash via a crafted...

Fedora Update for gnutls FEDORA-2013-20628

Check for the Version of gnutls OpenVAS Vulnerability Test Fedora Update for gnutls FEDORA-2013-20628 Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright C 2013 Greenbone Networks GmbH, http://www.greenbone.net This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the ter...

Passive Security Community Turned Activist

Security people like to call themselves a community, but until June some might say its greatest community achievement is turning Twitter into its own private and contentious echo chamber. But since the Snowden leaks, there’s been a palpable change and a marked swell in stand-taking. Tweeters have...

General Michael Hayden Talks about the Future of Cybersecurity at MIRcon 2013

When you've got some of the cybersecurity industry's best and brightest practitioners in one room, just how do you top the conversations they're having across the breakfast table? By getting one of the foremost experts on cybersecurity to deliver a top notch speech on the future of the industry,...

USN-2028-1: Apache XML Security for Java vulnerability

James Forshaw discovered that Apache XML Security for Java incorrectly validated CanonicalizationMethod parameters. An attacker could use this flaw to spoof XML signatures...

Automated Attack, Threat Intelligence Sharing Sought

BOSTON – If you’re looking for tangible information sharing success stories around attack intelligence, some might point to the prompt publishing of indicators of compromise IOC as an example. Security and forensics companies will publish MD5 hashes of malware, IP addresses involved in attacks,...

[SECURITY] Fedora 18 Update: firefox-25.0-3.fc18

Mozilla Firefox is an open-source web browser, designed for standards compliance, performance and portability...

[SECURITY] Fedora 20 Update: firefox-25.0-3.fc20

Mozilla Firefox is an open-source web browser, designed for standards compliance, performance and portability...

NIST Reviews Crypto Standards Development

The National Institute for Standards and Technology has taken an important step toward repairing what the National Security Agency has allegedly fractured by initiating a review of its cryptographic standards development processes. NIST-sponsored algorithms are at the heart of numerous crypto...

[SECURITY] Fedora 19 Update: firefox-25.0-3.fc19

Mozilla Firefox is an open-source web browser, designed for standards compliance, performance and portability...

[SECURITY] Fedora 19 Update: gnutls-3.1.15-1.fc19

GnuTLS is a project that aims to develop a library which provides a secure layer, over a reliable transport layer. Currently the GnuTLS library implem ents the proposed standards by the IETF's TLS working group...

NIST Publishes Preliminary Cybersecurity Framework

Following an Executive Order issued by U.S. President Barack Obama in February of this year, the National Institute of Standards and Technology NIST yesterday made public a provisional copy of the government’s cybersecurity framework and says it will accept public comment on the draft for the nex...

HTTPS, SSL Minimal Security, Privacy Standard for Email

Yahoo is being second-guessed more today than a mediocre baseball manager. Two days after announcing it would finally turn SSL on by default for its email users starting in January, the company is getting a halfhearted pat on the back from the security industry, which can’t help but ask: “What to...

Technologists Scrutinize Impact of Surveillance on Economy

If you’re looking for silver linings among the Snowden leaks and the breadth of the NSA’s surveillance activities, they could be found in two things: 1 the math upholding encryption technology is, as far as we know, solid; and 2 Tor apparently drives the U.S. spy agency batty. “I’m surprised,” sa...