Experts Worry About Long-Term Implications of NSA Revelations

With all of the disturbing revelations that have come to light in the last few weeks regarding the NSA’s collection methods and its efforts to weaken cryptographic protocols and security products, experts say that perhaps the most worrisome result of all of this is that no one knows who or what...

UK Cryptographers Call For Publication of Deliberately Weakened Protocols, Products

A group of cryptographers in the UK has published a letter that calls on authorities in that country and the United States to conduct an investigation to determine which security products, protocols and standards have been deliberately weakened by the countries’ intelligence services. The letter,...

[SECURITY] Fedora 19 Update: lightdm-1.6.2-1.fc19

LightDM is an X display manager that: Has a lightweight codebase Is standards compliant PAM, ConsoleKit, etc Has a well defined interface between the server and user interface Fully themeable easiest with the webkit interface Cross-desktop greeters can be written in any toolkit...

[SECURITY] Fedora 18 Update: asterisk-11.5.1-2.fc18

Asterisk is a complete PBX in software. It runs on Linux and provides all of the features you would expect from a PBX and more. Asterisk does voice over IP in three protocols, and can interoperate with almost all standards-based telephony equipment using relatively inexpensive hardware...

NIST Refutes Allegations NSA Compromised Crypto Standards

UPDATE–The revelations last week in leaked NSA documents that the intelligence agency had influenced the standards process at NIST to allegedly deliberately weaken unnamed cryptographic algorithms have spurred a huge amount of speculation and discussion in the security community about the...

Bruce Schneier on the NSA, Cryptography and Trust

Dennis Fisher talks with cryptographer Bruce Schneier about the revelations of the NSA’s capabilities to subvert and weaken cryptographic algorithms, security products and standards, and what it will take to help defeat these capabilities. Download: digitalunderground125.mp3 Subscribe to the...

Protecting Critical Infrastructure: Input Data

Kaspersky Lab is always working to develop new technologies for protecting critical computer systems from cybercriminals. In July, I had the opportunity to represent Kaspersky at a symposium sponsored by the National Institute of Standards and Technology NIST, focused on the national Cybersecurit...

Secunia CSI 7.0 - Next generation Patch Management tool released

Cybercrime costs organizations millions of dollars and to protect business from the consequences of security breaches, vulnerability intelligence and patch management are basic necessities in the toolbox of any IT team, as emphasized by organizations like the SANS Institute and the National...

SSL Certificate Chain Contains RSA Keys Less Than 2048 bits

At least one of the X.509 certificates sent by the remote host has a key that is shorter than 2048 bits. According to industry standards set by the Certification Authority/Browser CA/B Forum, certificates issued after January 1, 2014 must be at least 2048 bits. Some browser SSL implementations ma...

New Mozilla Plug-N-Hack Tool Integrates Browsers and Security Tools

The Mozilla security team is developing a new proposed standard that will make it easier for researchers to integrate some of their tools with Firefox and other browsers. The standard, known as Plug-n-Hack, is an open project that Mozilla hopes will be adopted by researchers and tool makers. A lo...

Fedora Update for firefox FEDORA-2013-14412

Check for the Version of firefox OpenVAS Vulnerability Test Fedora Update for firefox FEDORA-2013-14412 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...

Highlights of Newly Released PCI DSS 3.0 Information

The standards are coming! The PCI SSC has finally let loose with some much needed information regarding the upcoming releases of the PCI DSS 3.0 and PA DSS 3.0 standards. Available on the PCI SSC website; the document titled "Version 3.0 Change Highlights" contains information on what PCI...

[SECURITY] Fedora 18 Update: firefox-23.0-1.fc18

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

[SECURITY] Fedora 19 Update: wss4j-1.6.10-1.fc19

The Apache WSS4J project provides a Java implementation of the primary security standards for Web Services...

[SECURITY] Fedora 18 Update: wss4j-1.6.10-1.fc18

The Apache WSS4J project provides a Java implementation of the primary security standards for Web Services...

[SECURITY] Fedora 19 Update: firefox-23.0-1.fc19

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

[SECURITY] Fedora 18 Update: nodejs-npm-user-validate-0.0.3-1.fc18

This library validates usernames, passwords, and e-mail addresses to the standards required by the npm registry...

Oracle Linux 4 : libxml2 (ELSA-2012-0016)

From Red Hat Security Advisory 2012:0016 : Updated libxml2 packages that fix several security issues are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4. The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having important security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base scores...

NIST Seeks Guidance on Incident Response and Forensics

The federal government is looking for some help in figuring out how to respond to security incidents. As attacks continue to escalate against both government agencies and private enterprises, NIST is developing a set of standards for best practices in incident response and computer forensics. The...

Fedora Update for firefox FEDORA-2013-11776

Check for the Version of firefox OpenVAS Vulnerability Test Fedora Update for firefox FEDORA-2013-11776 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...