s/party/hack like it's 1999

Posted by up201407890 on Sep 19

Federico Bento <up201407890 () alunos dcc fc up pt>

So recently i’ve encountered a post by Kurt Seifried of RedHat on
oss-sec’s mailing list entitled “Terminal escape sequences – the new
XSS for admins?”
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/08/11/8

This is a little misleading title, since escape sequences have been
introduced circa 70’s, so it’s actually not that new.

How it technically…

New release of testssl.sh

Posted by Dirk on Sep 19

Hi,

version 2.6 of the SSL/TLS checker “testssl.sh” is out!

testssl.sh is a free command line tool which checks a server’s service
on any port for the support of TLS/SSL ciphers, protocols as well as
recent cryptographic flaws and it much more.

It is written in (pure) bash, makes only use of standard Unix utilities,
openssl and last but not least bash sockets.

Version 2.6 includes major improvements (ids from github):

*…

DSA-3363 owncloud-client – security update

Johannes Kliemann discovered a vulnerability in ownCloud Desktop Client,
the client-side of the ownCloud file sharing services. The vulnerability
allows man-in-the-middle attacks in situations where the server is using
self-signed certificates and the connection is already established. If
the user in the client side manually distrusts the new certificate, the
file syncing will continue using the malicious server as valid.