NSA Advocates Data Sharing Framework

NEW YORK–The economics of cybersecurity are skewed in favor of attackers, who invest once and can launch thousands of attacks with a piece of malware or exploit kit. That’s why Neal Ziring, technical director for the NSA’s Capabilities Directorate, wants to flip the financial equation on bad guys...

Apple Receives First National Security Letter

Apple revealed this week that it received a National Security Letter during the last six months of 2016. The news, which came as part of the company’s latest biannual transparency report, marks the first NSL Apple has reported receiving. The iPhone manufacturer released the report via a portal on...

PATCH Act Calls for VEP Review Board

The U.S. government took the first steps toward codifying the Vulnerabilities Equities Process into law yesterday through the introduction of the Protecting Our Ability to Counter Hacking PATCH Act of 2017. The VEP is the internal process by which the government decides which software...

openSUSE Security Update : ghostscript (openSUSE-2017-558)

This update for ghostscript fixes the following security vulnerabilities : CVE-2017-8291: A remote command execution and a -dSAFER bypass via a crafted .eps document were exploited in the wild. bsc1036453 CVE-2016-9601: An integer overflow in the bundled jbig2dec library could have been misused t...

Reproducing Go binaries byte-by-byte

Fully reproducible builds are important because they bridge the gap between auditable open source and convenient binary artifacts. Technologies like TUF and Binary Transparency provide accountability for what binaries are shipped to users, but that's of limited utility if there is no way short of...

Reproducing Go binaries byte-by-byte

Fully reproducible builds are important because they bridge the gap between auditable open source and convenient binary artifacts. Technologies like TUF and Binary Transparency provide accountability for what binaries are shipped to users, but that's of limited utility if there is no way short of...

Google Pleads for Better Cross-Border Exchange of Digital Evidence

Google said it is receiving a growing number of cross-border requests for user data to be used as evidence in criminal prosecutions. The volume of requests is also exposing weaknesses in the existing process for exchanging data between countries called the Mutual Legal Assistance Treaties MLAT,...

Suing to See the Feds’ Encrypted Messages? Good Luck

Conservative watchdog Judicial Watch is suing the EPA for staffers' Signal messages. It may hit the encrypted limits of federal transparency. The post Suing to See the Feds' Encrypted Messages? Good Luck appeared first on WIRED...

CVE-2016-10220

The gsmakewordimagedevice function in base/gsdevmem.c in Artifex Software, Inc. Ghostscript 9.20 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service NULL pointer dereference and application crash via a crafted file that is mishandled in the PDF Transparency module...

CVE-2016-10218

The pdf14poptransparencygroup function in base/gdevp14.c in the PDF Transparency module in Artifex Software, Inc. Ghostscript 9.20 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service NULL pointer dereference and application crash via a crafted file...

CVE-2016-10220

The gsmakewordimagedevice function in base/gsdevmem.c in Artifex Software, Inc. Ghostscript 9.20 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service NULL pointer dereference and application crash via a crafted file that is mishandled in the PDF Transparency module...

CVE-2016-10218

The pdf14poptransparencygroup function in base/gdevp14.c in the PDF Transparency module in Artifex Software, Inc. Ghostscript 9.20 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service NULL pointer dereference and application crash via a crafted file...

CVE-2016-10218

The pdf14poptransparencygroup function in base/gdevp14.c in the PDF Transparency module in Artifex Software, Inc. Ghostscript 9.20 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service NULL pointer dereference and application crash via a crafted file...

Null pointer dereference

The gsmakewordimagedevice function in base/gsdevmem.c in Artifex Software, Inc. Ghostscript 9.20 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service NULL pointer dereference and application crash via a crafted file that is mishandled in the PDF Transparency module...

CVE-2016-10218

The pdf14poptransparencygroup function in base/gdevp14.c in the PDF Transparency module in Artifex Software, Inc. Ghostscript 9.20 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service NULL pointer dereference and application crash via a crafted file...

CVE-2016-10220

The gsmakewordimagedevice function in base/gsdevmem.c in Artifex Software, Inc. Ghostscript 9.20 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service NULL pointer dereference and application crash via a crafted file that is mishandled in the PDF Transparency module...

CVE-2016-10220

CVE-2016-10220 affects Artifex Ghostscript, specifically Ghostscript 9.20. The vulnerability is in the function gs_makewordimagedevice (base/gsdevmem.c) and can be triggered by a crafted PDF in the PDF Transparency module, leading to a NULL pointer dereference and an application crash (denial of ...

CVE-2016-10220

The gsmakewordimagedevice function in base/gsdevmem.c in Artifex Software, Inc. Ghostscript 9.20 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service NULL pointer dereference and application crash via a crafted file that is mishandled in the PDF Transparency module...

CVE-2016-10218

The pdf14poptransparencygroup function in base/gdevp14.c in the PDF Transparency module in Artifex Software, Inc. Ghostscript 9.20 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service NULL pointer dereference and application crash via a crafted file...

UBUNTU-CVE-2016-10220

The gsmakewordimagedevice function in base/gsdevmem.c in Artifex Software, Inc. Ghostscript 9.20 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service NULL pointer dereference and application crash via a crafted file that is mishandled in the PDF Transparency module...