Security News – Paul’s Security Weekly #503

The risks of using an Android password manager, another WordPress plugin is flawed, hidden backdoors, Cloudbleed gets triggered, and more in this week’s security news! Full Show Notes Subscribe to YouTube Channel Security Weekly Website Follow us on Twitter: @securityweekly http://traffic.libsyn.com/pauldotcom/Pauls_Security_Weekly__503_-_Security_News_converted.mp3 Continue reading Security News – Paul’s Security Weekly #503

Threatpost News Wrap, March 3, 2017

The news of the week is recapped, including the fallout around CloudBleed, the CloudPets breach, and a Slack token bug. The life of Howard Schmidt is also remembered. Continue reading Threatpost News Wrap, March 3, 2017

Threatpost News Wrap, February 24, 2017

Mike Mimoso and Chris Brook recap RSA and discuss the news of the week including the impact of Cloudflare’s “Cloudbleed” bug, Google breaking SHA-1, and more. Continue reading Threatpost News Wrap, February 24, 2017

Cloudbleed — Your Credentials Cached in Search Engines

In case you are still wondering about the SHA-1 being broken and if someone is going to be spending hundreds of thousands of dollars to create a fake Certificate Authority and sniff your OkCupid credentials, don’t worry. Why spend so much money when your credentials are being cached by search engines?… Wait, what?

A serious combination of bugs, dubbed Cloudbleed by [Tavis Ormandy], lead to uninitialized memory being present in the response generated by the reverse proxies and leaked to the requester. Since these reverse proxies are shared between Cloudfare clients, this makes the problem even worst, since random data …read more

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Cloudflare Bug Leaks Sensitive Data

Cloudflare has fixed an issue where its customer traffic was leaking memory that included sensitive information including authentication cookies, POST data and more. Continue reading Cloudflare Bug Leaks Sensitive Data

Am I Affected by Cloudbleed?

Yesterday, Cloudflare posted an incident report on their blog about an issue discovered in their HTML parser. A very nice report which is worth a read! As usual, in our cyber world, this vulnerability quickly received a nice name and logo: “Cloudbleed“. I’ll not explain in details the vulnerability here,

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