Researchers have published a paper that describes an Internet voting hack that alters PDF ballots in transmission.
Tag Archives: Web Security
EFF Calls Out ISPs Modifying STARTTLS Encryption Commands
The Electronic Frontier Foundation has backed VPN provider Golden Frog’s FCC filing that accuses ISPs of stripping out STARTTLS instructions from email messages.
Microsoft Schannel Bug Latest in Long Line of Serious Crypto Flaws
The critical vulnerability in the Schannel technology in Windows that Microsoft patched Tuesday is ripe for exploitation, experts say, and continues the long line of severe vulnerabilities in major SSL/TLS implementations in recent months. Secure Channel, also known as Schannel, is a technology that’s used in Windows to implement SSL and TLS, the main secure […]
Adobe Patches 18 Vulnerabilities in Flash
Adobe pushed out security updates for Flash Player this afternoon, addressing 18 different vulnerabilities, all critical, that could allow an attacker to take control of an affected system.
New Mozilla Privacy Initiative to Include High-Capacity Tor Relays
Mozilla is starting a new initiative that the company says is designed to incorporate more privacy enhancing features into Firefox and the other Mozilla products. The project, known as Polaris, involves collaboration with The Tor Project and the Center for Democracy and Technology and will involve Mozilla running a group of high-speed Tor relays, as […]
SSL MiTM Vulnerability Among Vulns Patched in Pidgin
Five vulnerabilities were patched in the most recent update to the open source Pidgin instant messaging client.
Avoiding the Dark Security Future
LAS VEGAS–Nick Percoco has been thinking a lot about the future of technology, and some of the things he’s dreamed up aren’t very pretty: farms of people renting out their spare brain cycles, autonomous cars that freak out and careen into oncoming traffic and hacking groups hijacking users’ augmented reality gear and demanding ransoms to unlock […]
Expanding Use of PKI in Variety of Devices Holds Challenges
LAS VEGAS–One of the longest running jokes in the security industry is that each coming year finally will be The Year of PKI. While that one huge year never materialized, the use of PKI and digital certificates has become an integral part of how the Internet works today. But there are some challenges on the horizon […]
​Jeremy Rowley on the Facebook Tor Cert Decision and the Future of PKI
Dennis Fisher and DigiCert’s Jeremy Rowley discuss the company’s certificate issuance for Facebook’s .onion site, the challenge of key protection in today’s environment and what the near future holds for PKI.
Serious Root Access Bug in Belkin N750 Router
A serious vulnerability in a popular Belkin router could be exploited by a local, unauthenticated attacker to gain full control over affected devices.