Pierluigi Paganini
May 31, 2016
According to the security firm High-Tech Bridge many of the Alexa Top 10,000 websites are still vulnerable to the OpenSSL flaw CVE-2016-2107. The CVE-2016-2107 flaw affecting the open-source cryptographic library could be exploited to launch a man-in-the-middle attack leveraging on the ‘Padding Oracle Attack’ that can decrypt HTTPS traffic if the connection uses AES-CBC cipher and the server supports AES-NI. According […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 05, 2016
OpenSSL has the patches for six flaws including two high-severity bugs that could allow attackers to decrypt HTTPS traffic and execute malicious code on the server. OpenSSL just released several patches to fix vulnerabilities in the open-source cryptographic library, including a couple of high-severity flaws (CVE-2016-2107, CVE-2016-2108) that could be exploited to decrypt HTTPS Traffic. The CVE-2016-2107 could […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 30, 2016
Developers of OpenSSL issued a patch that fixes a high-severity vulnerability that allows attackers to decrypt secure traffic. The development team at the OpenSSL has issued a security patch to fix a flaw, coded as CVE-2016-0701, that could be exploited by hackers to decrypt secure traffic. The flaw was reported on January 12 by Antonio Sanso […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 17, 2015
New versions of OpenSSL will be released on Thursday to patch critical security vulnerabilities, one of which is considered very dangerous. The OpenSSL Project Team announced in an advisory published on Monday that new versions of OpenSSL will be released on Thursday to patch several security vulnerabilities. The disconcerting news is that at least one of them […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 21, 2014
The ICS-CERT has issued a security advisory related to the existence of OpenSSL vulnerabilities affecting different Siemens industrial products. Several Siemens industrial products are affected by four vulnerabilities in their OpenSSL implementation which could be remotely exploited to run a man-in-the-middle (MitM) attack or to cause the crash of web servers of the products. Critical infrastructure […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 06, 2014
The OpenSSL Foundation has fixed a series of new vulnerabilities, two of them considered critical. Organizations are invited to apply patches asap. The Open SSL has provided a collection of updates for its libraries to fix a series of new vulnerabilities recently reported. The exact number of vulnerabilities affecting OpenSSL is 6 and two of them are […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 05, 2014
Experts at security firm Codenomicon discovered a critical buffer overflow vulnerability in the implementation of the GnuTLS software. GnuTLS, a free software implementation of SSL/TLS/DTLS protocols, it offers a set of application programming interface (API) to enable secure communication over their network transport layer. News of the day is that the widely used cryptographic library is vulnerable […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 18, 2014
The presence of nearly 380 servers in the Tor Network, 12 percent of the exit capacity, running the vulnerable version of OpenSSL could have compromised user’s anonymity. The Heartbleed bug is the flaw in the popular OpenSSL library that is scaring the security communities, many security experts hiphotesized that Intelligence agencies, including NSA, have exploited the bug to spy on […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 14, 2014
Heartbleed is the security flaw that is scaring IT industry, which is its impact on the mobile worlds? How many Smartphone Users could be affected? Heartbleed flaw is the argument that most of all is capturing the attention of the media in this period, billions of users worldwide have been impacted, there are thousands solutions affected […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 13, 2014
CISCO and BlackBerry started to evaluate the impact of Heartbleed vulnerability on their products … unfortunately,the list of affected solutions is long. So far we have discussed the Heartbleed vulnerability by not investigating which are the products on the market that really are suffering it. We realized that the Heartbleed vulnerability potentially allows any attacker to access […]
