Command injection

Tails before 1.7 includes the wget program but does not prevent automatic fallback from passive FTP to active FTP, which allows remote FTP servers to discover the Tor client IP address by reading a 1 PORT or 2 EPRT command. NOTE: within wget itself, the automatic fallback is not considered a...

CVE-2015-7665

Tails before 1.7 includes the wget program but does not prevent automatic fallback from passive FTP to active FTP, which allows remote FTP servers to discover the Tor client IP address by reading a 1 PORT or 2 EPRT command. NOTE: within wget itself, the automatic fallback is not considered a...

CVE-2015-7665

CVE-2015-7665 affects Tails before 1.7 where the wget utility allows passive FTP to fall back to active FTP, enabling remote FTP servers to read PORT/EPRT and reveal the Tor client IP. Root cause: wget’s automatic FTP fallback not restricted. Impact: potential disclosure of the client IP; no expl...

Tails 1.6 Information Disclosure

Tails On Tails /dev/null | grep ^amnesia amnesia:$6$r0jt1v9E$UOrWbJ70qAH/sjaKfjmCMvkXZ19bqC2ieQ2UvYk0HKwVvgxuZFtyIwjoLfgH AwrZVM3a0NTEkcsQY1hn/Uq2S0:16710:0:99999:7:::...

Tails 1.4 - The Amnesic Incognito Live System

Tails is a live operating system, that you can start on almost any computer from a DVD, USB stick, or SD card. It aims at preserving your privacy and anonymity , and helps you to: use the Internet anonymously and circumvent censorship ; all connections to the Internet are forced to go through the...

Tails 1.3 Released, Introduces 'Electrum Bitcoin Wallet'

A new Tails 1.3 has been released with support to a secure Bitcoin wallet. Tails, also known as the 'Amnesic Incognito Live System', is a free security-focused Debian-based Linux distribution, specially designed and optimized to preserve users' anonymity and privacy. Tails operating system came t...

Tails 1.3 - The Amnesic Incognito Live System

Tails is a live operating system, that you can start on almost any computer from a DVD, USB stick, or SD card. It aims at preserving your privacy and anonymity , and helps you to: use the Internet anonymously and circumvent censorship ; all connections to the Internet are forced to go through the...

MAT: Metadata Anonymisation Toolkit

MAT: Metadata Anonymisation Toolkit What is metadata? Metadata consists of information that characterizes data e.g. Word documents, pictures, music files, etc. In essence, metadata answers who, what, when, where, why, and how about every facet of the data that is being characterized. Why metadata...

SEANux — Syrian Electronic Army To Release its Own Linux-based Distribution

Lots of Linux distributions are offered free of cost on the Internet by a number of companies, non-commercial organizations and by many individuals as well, and now, the notorious Syrian Electronic Army SEA has announced their own Linux distribution known as SEANux. A Linux distribution is a...

Privacy-focused Tails 1.1.2 Operating System Released

Tails, a Linux-based highly secure Operating System specially designed and optimized to preserve users' anonymity and privacy, has launched its new release, Tails version 1.1.2. Tails, also known as 'Amnesiac Incognito Live System', is a free security-focused Debian-based Linux distribution, whic...

Tails 1.1.1 - The Amnesic Incognito Live System

Tails is a live operating system, that you can start on almost any computer from a DVD, USB stick, or SD card. It aims at preserving your privacy and anonymity , and helps you to: use the Internet anonymously and circumvent censorship ; all connections to the Internet are forced to go through the...

Attackers Compromise TOR Network to De-Anonymize Users of Hidden Services

A critical vulnerability in Tor — an encrypted anonymizing network considered to be one of the most privacy oriented service, which is used by online users in order to hide their activities from law enforcement, government censors and others — was probably being used to de-anonymize the identity ...

TAILS Team Recommends Workarounds for Flaw in I2P

The developers of the TAILS operating system say that users can mitigate the severity of the critical vulnerability researchers discovered in the I2P software that’s bundled with TAILS with a couple of workarounds, but there is no patch for the bug yet. The vulnerability that affects TAILS is in...

Researchers Demonstrate Zero-Day Vulnerabilities in Tails Operating System

The critical zero-day security flaws, discovered in the privacy and security dedicated Linux-based Tails operating system by the researcher at Exodus Intelligence that could help attackers or law enforcements to de-anonymize anyone’s identity, actually lie in the I2P software that’s bundled with...

Researchers Demo TAILS Flaw Exploit, Disclose Details to Developers

The critical vulnerability in the TAILS operating system discovered by researchers at Exodus Intelligence lies in the I2P software that’s bundled with the OS and the company has released some details and a video demonstrating an exploit against the bug. Exodus researchers said that the...

Warning — Zero-Day Vulnerabilities Identified in Tails Operating System

The critical zero-day security flaws has been discovered in the privacy and security dedicated Linux-based operating system “Tails” that could be used by an attacker to unmask your identity. Tails, which is been used and recommended by the global surveillance whistleblower Edward Snowden to remai...

Researchers Plan to Disclose Critical Bugs to TAILS Team Soon

The developers of the TAILS operating system are poised to release a new version of the software–which is designed to preserve privacy and anonymity–and it includes several security fixes. However, there are several other security issues that aren’t patched in the new release, vulnerabilities...

Beware of the NSA, If You Are Privacy Conscious and Security Enthusiast

We all are aware of the National Security Agency’s NSA mass surveillance program to track non-Americans. Thanks to former NSA contractor Edward Snowden, who provided confidential documents about the widely spread surveillance programs conducted by the government intelligence agency such as NSA an...

'Tails' Operating System Website Has Been Hacked

Just a few hours ago, the Official website of the Tails Operating System has been hacked and it appears that a self-proclaimed 17-year old hacker breached and defaced it. Tails is a Linux-based highly secure Operating System, specially designed and optimized to preserve users' anonymity and...

How To Remove File Metadata

How To Remove File Metadata For those of you who want to remove file metadata from any shared data, you can use existing document or image editor software which typically have built-in metadata editing capability. In this tutorial, we will introduce a standalone metadata cleaner tool which is...