Security News > 2015 > June

New Chrome Extension Blocks BeEF Attacks (Threatpost)
2015-06-26 17:48

An engineer has come up with a new way to help combat BeEF, or browser exploit framework attacks.

NIST Drops Weak Dual_EC RNG From Official Recommendations (Threatpost)
2015-06-26 17:35

NIST officially has removed the controversial and compromised Dual_EC_DRBG from its list of recommended algorithms for generating random numbers.

Other GCHQ News from Snowden (Schneier on Security)
2015-06-26 17:12

There are two other Snowden stories this week about GCHQ: one about its hacking practices, and the other about its propaganda and psychology research. The second is particularly disturbing: While...

Threatpost News Wrap, June 26, 2015 (Threatpost)
2015-06-26 16:44

Dennis Fisher and Mike Mimoso talk about the Cisco default SSH keys, more details of the OPM data breach, the Adobe 0-day and why we never hear about bad APT groups, only the really good ones.

Researcher tests Tor exit nodes, finds not all operators can be trusted (Help Net Security)
2015-06-26 14:44

While the Tor anonymity network conceals (relatively successfully) a user's location and Internet activity from anyone who might want to know about it, users should be aware of the fact that it does n...

Cisco SSH Key Flaw Has Echoes of Earlier Vulnerabilities (Threatpost)
2015-06-26 13:31

When Cisco released a patch for several of its security appliances Thursday that eliminated the presence of hard-coded SSH host and private keys, the advisory had a distinct air of familiarity...

Vegan and BeEF clash shows how cyber arms race never stops (Help Net Security)
2015-06-26 12:25

Cyber attackers and defenders are caught in a permanent to-and-fro dance, coming up with new solutions that break the last one created by their adversaries. An example of this never-ending arms ra...

NSA and GCHQ Attacked Antivirus Companies (Schneier on Security)
2015-06-26 11:59

On Monday, the Intercept published a new story from the Snowden documents: The spy agencies have reverse engineered software products, sometimes under questionable legal authority, and monitored...

Facebook slowly fine-tuning its popular ThreatExchange (Help Net Security)
2015-06-26 10:43

Facebook's ThreatExchange, which was unveiled this February, is apparently a hit with organizations, and they are vocal about the ways they believe it could be improved. Fine-tuning a system like t...

Cisco finds, removes more default SSH keys on its software (Help Net Security)
2015-06-26 08:32

Cisco has pushed out security updates to address two vulnerabilities in its Web Security Virtual Appliance (WSAv), Email Security Virtual Appliance (ESAv), and Content Security Management Virtual Appl...