security audit

Pierluigi Paganini November 29, 2016
An audit revealed dozen vulnerabilities in the cURL

Security experts who conducted an audit on cURL discovered nearly a dozen vulnerabilities that were patched in the last release. The cURL (read “see URL”) is an open source command line tool and library designed for transferring data through various protocols. The cURL is included in a wide range of applications, including networking devices, printers, smartphones, IoT devices […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 30, 2015
Are you still using TrueCrypt? Beware of these 2 critical flaws!

The popular security expert James Forshaw has discovered two critical flaws in the driver that TrueCrypt installs on Windows systems. Bad news for Windows users who have decided to use TrueCrypt to encrypt their hard drives, the researcher James Forshaw, a member of Google’s Project Zero team, has discovered two serious vulnerabilities affecting the popular […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 03, 2015
TrueCrypt doesn’t include a backdoor according to a security audit

The security audit of the popular encryption software TrueCrypt reveals the absence of the backdoor and other significant flaws exploitable by the NSA. The news of the day is the conclusion of the security audit of the popular encryption tool TrueCrypt that confirmed the absence of any backdoor neither critical design vulnerabilities inside the source code. TrueCrypt is a […]