IEEE Statement on Strong Encryption vs. Backdoors

The IEEE came out in favor of strong encryption: IEEE supports the use of unfettered strong encryption to protect confidentiality and integrity of data and communications. We oppose efforts by governments to restrict the use of strong encryption and/or to mandate exceptional access mechanisms suc...

Microsoft Windows: System Cryptography: Force strong key protection

This test checks the setting for policy OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $Id: winscstrongkeyprotect.nasl 11344 2018-09-12 06:57:52Z emoss $ Check value for System cryptography: Force strong key protection for user keys stored on the computer Authors: Emanuel Moss Copyright: Copyright c 2018 Greenbone...

hapi node module security restriction vulnerability

The hapi node module is a server framework for Node.js. The framework supports input validation, caching, authentication and more. A security vulnerability exists in hapi node module versions prior to 11.1.4. An attacker can exploit the vulnerability to override a higher security restriction...

Design/Logic Flaw

react-native-meteor-oauth is a library for Oauth2 login to a Meteor server in React Native. The oauth Random Token is generated using a non-cryptographically strong RNG Math.random...

Microsoft Windows: Require strong session key

This test checks the setting for policy OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $Id: windomainrequirestrongsessionkey.nasl 11532 2018-09-21 19:07:30Z cfischer $ Check value for Domain member: Require strong session key Authors: Emanuel Moss Copyright: Copyright c 2018 Greenbone Networks GmbH,...

Two major Canadian banks blackmailed after alleged data breach

While the US was celebrating Memorial Day on Monday, Canada was dealing with an unusual data breach affecting two popular financial institutions: Simplii Financial and Bank of Montreal BMO. The CBC broke the story and updated it throughout the day to mention that some 90,000 customers were possib...

James Comey: FBI Faces Deep Tech-Related Questions

LAS VEGAS – The American law enforcement system is facing a crisis of identity in the face of technology advancement, with cloud migration and automated systems, data privacy and encryption all remaining central issues for the FBI as it considers its mandate and role in the modern digital age...

Twitter to All Users: Change Your Password Now!

Twitter just asked all 300+ million users to reset their passwords, citing the exposure of user passwords via a bug that stored passwords in plain text -- without protecting them with any sort of encryption technology that would mask a Twitter user's true password. The social media giant says it...

CVE-2017-1601

IBM Security Guardium 10.0, 10.0.1, and 10.1 through 10.1.4 Database Activity Monitor does not require that users should have strong passwords by default, which makes it easier for attackers to compromise user accounts. IBM X-Force ID: 132624...

Default credentials

An issue was discovered in phpLiteAdmin 1.9.5 through 1.9.7.1. Due to loose comparison with '==' instead of '===' in classes/Authorization.php for the user-provided login password, it is possible to login with a simpler password if the password has the form of a power in scientific notation like...

CVE-2018-10362

An issue was discovered in phpLiteAdmin 1.9.5 through 1.9.7.1. Due to loose comparison with '==' instead of '===' in classes/Authorization.php for the user-provided login password, it is possible to login with a simpler password if the password has the form of a power in scientific notation like...

Tax Guidance as Deadline Approaches

As this year's April 17 tax deadline approaches, NCCIC/US-CERT offers taxpayers guidance to help protect their personal, financial, and tax information. Hackers can take advantage of taxpayers by using social engineering scams to attempt to steal personally identifiable information. NCCIC...

Creating and Managing Strong Passwords

NCCIC/US-CERT reminds users of the importance of creating and managing strong passwords. Passwords are often the only barrier between you and your personal information. There are several programs attackers can use to help guess or "crack" passwords. However, choosing strong passwords and keeping...

CVE-2018-1372

IBM Security Guardium Big Data Intelligence SonarG 3.1 does not require that users should have strong passwords by default, which makes it easier for attackers to compromise user accounts. IBM X-Force ID: 137772...

Update to add SHA-2 code signing support for Windows Server 2008 SP2

Update to add SHA-2 code signing support for Windows Server 2008 SP2 Summary This update provides support for the Secure Hash Algorithm-2 SHA-2 code signing and verification functionality in the 64-bit version of Windows Server 2008 Service Pack 2 SP2 which includes the following: Support for...

Cybersecurity New Year’s resolutions, you say? Why not.

It's mid-January, and oh, how time flies. It wasn’t long since we bid farewell to 2017 and welcomed the new year with renewed hope and vigor. Of course, with such positivity comes a sense of an equally favorable outlook for the year ahead. However good that may sound, being faced with a tabula ra...

Susan Landau's New Book: Listening In

Susan Landau has written a terrific book on cybersecurity threats and why we need strong crypto. Listening In: Cybersecurity in an Insecure Age. It's based in part on her 2016 Congressional testimony in the Apple/FBI case; it examines how the Digital Revolution has transformed society, and how la...

TP-Link TL-SG108E XSS / Weak Access Control

Overview ------------- Three vulnerabilities have been discovered in the TP-Link TL-SG108E, firmware 1.0.0 Build 20160722 Rel.50167: CVE-2017-17745 - Cross Site Scripting XSS in systemnameset.cgi, sysName parameter CVE-2017-17746 - Weak access control for user authentication CVE-2017-17747 - Weak...

QEMU - NBD Server Long Export Name Stack Buffer Overflow

Introduced in commit f37708f6b8 2.10. The NBD spec says a client can request export names up to 4096 bytes in length, even though they should not expect success on names longer than 256. However, qemu hard-codes the limit of 256, and fails to filter out a client that probes for a longer name; the...

Ruby on Rails: ActionController::Parameters .each returns an unsafe hash

Rails 5.1.4 The goal of ActionController::Parameters's permit method strong parameters is to prevent accidental trust in the parameters sent by the client. We can therefore not simply create a hash of all the parameters in the params without permitting them first. When we really want to do this...