Crypto Pioneers Write Letter on NSA Surveillance to Obama

Perhaps the biggest condemnation of President Obama’s address last Friday announcing reforms to the NSA’s surveillance programs was his failure to mention any of the agency’s alleged involvement in subverting cryptography standards and the impact that has had on the trustworthiness of products...

Electric Cybersecurity Regulations Have Serial Problem

A class of SCADA vulnerabilities discussed at a recent conference is getting attention not only for the risks they pose to master control systems at electric utilities, but also for illuminating a dangerous gap in important critical infrastructure regulations. Researchers Adam Crain and Chris...

Google Chrome Eavesdropping Exploit Published

The developer of the annyang speech recognition JavaScript library has published exploit code for a bug in Google’s Chrome browser that could allow a malicious website to eavesdrop using a computer’s microphone long after a visitor has left a website. The code disclosure is in response, said...

Obama Orders NSA Bulk Metadata Surveillance Reforms

President Obama today announced reforms to the National Security Agency’s bulk metadata collection program under Section 215 of the PATRIOT Act, ordering a transition that would end the program as it exists today, and prohibit the government from storing and accessing the data without secret cour...

IRTF Chair Refuses Removal of NSA Employee as Co-Chair of Crypto Working Group

An NSA employee who is the co-chairman of a cryptography working group affiliated with the IETF will remain in that position despite calls from members to have him removed. The chairman of the Internet Research Task Force, the body that oversees the research group, rejected requests for the remov...

[SECURITY] Fedora 19 Update: nss-3.15.3.1-1.fc19

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...

Fedora Update for firefox FEDORA-2013-23122

Check for the Version of firefox OpenVAS Vulnerability Test Fedora Update for firefox FEDORA-2013-23122 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...

NSA Bulk Telephony Metadata Collection Program Legal

A federal court today shot down a challenge by the American Civil Liberties Union ACLU to the National Security Agency’s bulk phone metadata collection program, determining that the spy agency’s actions are legal. The ruling by U.S. District Court judge William Pauley contradicts a Dec. 16 D.C...

[SECURITY] Fedora 18 Update: firefox-26.0-2.fc18

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

[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...