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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...
ooniprobe - Measure Internet Censorship & Speed
Interested in collecting evidence of Internet censorship? Curious about the speed and performance of the network that you are using? By running the tests in this app, you will examine the following: Blocking of websites Presence of systems that could be responsible for censorship and/or...
Google Releases E2EMail to Open Source
The ongoing struggle to provide encrypted email solutions that aren’t on a PGP level of complexity and difficulty is a real challenge. Google’s attempt at it, called E2EMail, was introduced more than a year ago as an effort to give users a Chrome app that allows for the simple exchange of private...
Policy Experts Push To Make Vulnerability Equities Process Law
The U.S. government’s role in vulnerability disclosures is a vital part of our national security and should be codified in law, said a group of policy experts at a panel discussion last week at the RSA Conference. The panelists argued that the government’s current process of vulnerability use and...
Google Upspin Secure File-Sharing Released to Open Source
Google has released to open source new file-sharing interfaces and protocols it calls Upspin that allow users to securely share files using a global namespace rather than uploading and downloading content or sharing it first with a web-based service. Upspin is largely a consumer tool, Google said...
Google becomes its own Root Certificate Authority
In an effort to expand its certificate authority capabilities and build the "foundation of a more secure web," Google has finally launched its root certificate authority. In past few years, we have seen Google taking many steps to show its strong support for sites using HTTPS, like: Giving more...
Google's Key Transparency Simplifies Public Key Lookups
Google has taken a big step toward simplifying public key lookups at Internet scale with the release to open source on Thursday of Key Transparency. Key Transparency is admittedly a prototype, Google said, but it could provide significant relief for secure messaging systems suffering from...
Cloudflare Shares National Security Letter It Received in 2013
Thanks to the lifting of a gag order, on Tuesday security firm Cloudflare was finally able to post a National Security Letter it received from the Federal Bureau of Investigation back in 2013. Cloudflare’s counsel Kenneth R. Carter acknowledged the lifting of the order and said the letter is part...
Google Discloses Contents of Eight National Security Letters
Google on Tuesday disclosed the contents of eight National Security Letters it received between 2010 and 2015, becoming the latest company under reforms afforded by the USA Freedom Act to do so. The requests made by United States Federal Bureau of Investigation were made to Google to identify 21...
Facebook Releases Free Certificate Transparency Monitoring Tool
The movement toward Certificate Transparency CT has brought about a healthy improvement, not only in the way organizations monitor and audit TLS certs, but also in cutting down the number of malicious or mistakenly issued certificates. CT, a framework developed by Google, works because Certificat...
Google to Make Certificate Transparency Mandatory By 2017
Google is making Certificate Transparency mandatory for its Chrome web browser by October 2017. Google software engineer Ryan Sleevi made the announcement in conjunction with the CA/Browser Forum that took place in Redmond, Washington last week. The move is an attempt to reduce the number of doma...
Yahoo Asks DNI to De-Classify Email Scanning Order
Yahoo continues to seek high ground with regard to public reports that last year it scanned user email messages in compliance with a classified government order. General counsel Ron Bell yesterday sent a letter to Director of National Intelligence James R. Clapper asking the government to confirm...
Google Handles Record Number of Government Requests for Data
Google fielded a record number of government requests for user data during the first half of 2016, according to its updated Transparency Report. It was also able to report that it received at least one National Security Letter during the six months between July and December 2015. “Pursuant to the...
Google Retreats on Some Allo Privacy Promises
Google released its Allo messenger application today, and right along with it a measure of controversy that has critics urging potential users to stay away. The angst stems from what seems to be a reversal on Google’s part to start logging chats in the app’s non-incognito mode by default, somethi...
Experts Want Transparency From Government's Vulnerabilities Equities Process
The federal government’s Vulnerabilities Equities Process—albeit a heavily redacted version—was turned over more than a year ago, and despite that measure of visibility, privacy and security watchdogs still don’t have the transparency they seek with the regard to the unreported flaws the governme...
Chinese Certificate Authority 'mistakenly' gave out SSL Certs for GitHub Domains
A Chinese certificate authority CA appeared to be making a significant security blunder by handing out duplicate SSL certificates for a base domain if someone just has control over its any subdomain. The certificate authority, named WoSign, issued a base certificate for the Github domains to an...
Bulgaria passes Law that mandates Government Software must be Open Source
Do you have any idea what the software you have installed is doing stealthily in the background? If it's not an open source software, can you find out? Usually, the answer is no. After Edward Snowden’s revelations, it's clear that how desperately government agencies wants to put secret backdoors ...
Warrant Canary Database Shuts Down
Warrant canaries aren’t definitive markers that a company has been served with a National Security Letter or some other type of court order mandating that customer information be turned over to a government agency or law enforcement. But oftentimes, they are a strong indicator that something has...
