Cisco rolls out a bevy of patches tied to vulnerabilities found in its cloud services platform, IOS software and Prime Home products.
Tag Archives: Crypto
Patrick Wardle on macOS Gatekeeper, Crypto Enhancements
At last week’s Apple Worldwide Developer Conference, Apple announced some security upgrades around Gatekeeper and a new filesystem that includes native support for encryption. Mac hacker Patrick Wardle, director of research at Synack, explains whether this a big deal and how the upgrades address some problems he’d disclosed to Apple.
Google Set to Kill SSLv3 and RC4 in SMTP, Gmail in June
Google announced this week that it will begin to disable SSLv3 and RC4 a month from now, on June 16.
Deluge of Apple Patches Fix iMessage Crypto Bug, Much More
Apple deployed patches for nearly all of its products, including Safari, OS X, iOS, Apple TV’s tvOS, and watchOS on Monday.
Threatpost News Wrap, February 5, 2016
Mike Mimoso and Chris Brook discuss the news of the week including internet-connected teddy bears, the latest on the Going Dark debate, and whether or not there’s a backdoor in Socat. They also preview next week’s Security Analyst Summit in Tenerife, Spain.
TLS Implementations Vulnerable to RSA Key Leaks
A number of TLS software implementations contain vulnerabilities that allow hackers with minimal computational expense to learn RSA keys.
​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.
Google ‘Sunsetting’ Weak SHA-1 Crypto Algorithm
Google has initiated a process to revoke trust from any certificates that rely on the outdated SHA-1crytpographic hash algorithm.