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OpenSSH Flaw Could Leak Crypto Keys

2016-01-15 23:48:41| TechNewsWorld

Qualys on Thursday reported a flaw in the OpenSSH client that could let a hacker steal the client's private crypto keys. The bug is the result of an undocumented feature called "roaming" that exists in version 5.4 and above. It's one of two vulnerabilities that a malicious SSH server or a trusted but compromised server can exploit, Qualys said. The other is a heap-based buffer overflow.

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Major Security Flaw Found in Silent Circle's Blackphone

2016-01-07 19:49:12| TechNewsWorld

Security researchers at SentinelOne on Wednesday revealed a vulnerability they discovered in the Blackphone. The flaw -- an obscure socket -- lets an attacker take over and control communications on the Blackphone, a highly secure Android smartphone Silent Circle developed and marketed in reaction to news of government surveillance of people's communications.

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Latest airbag death shows flaw in U.S. recall system

2015-12-29 05:25:34| Automakers - Topix.net

From 2010 to 2012, Honda Motor Co. said it made multiple attempts to notify the owner of a 2001 Accord that the car's air bag was faulty and needed replacing.

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Backspace Flaw Enables Linux Zero-Day Attack

2015-12-28 20:20:59| TechNewsWorld

Researchers last week revealed a zero-day flaw that lets attackers take over a Linux system by pressing the backspace key repeatedly. Pressing backspace 17 to 20 times will overwrite the highest byte of the return address of the grub_memset() function, ultimately causing a reboot by redirecting control flow to the 0x00eb53e8 address, according to the Cybersecurity Group at the Universitat Politecnica de Valencia.

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