Kerberos, an ancient network authentication protocol from the 1980s that is commonly used to this day, can get you into some serious trouble.
The Kerberos setup used by your organization may not be all it’s cracked up to be.
Google I/O 2016 conference planned for May 18, registration kicks off on March 8
Sundar Pichai, Google’s CEO, took to Google+ today to announce that the company’s annual developer conference, Google I/O 2016, would take place at the Shoreline Amphitheatre in Mountain View on May 18-20. If you plan to attend, mark your calendars now! The registration kicks off on March 8th.
This Google I/O is going to be huge. Sundar Pichai will celebrate its 10th anniversary with an exciting keynote and countless surprises. Stay tuned!
DROWN, a New Attack on OpenSSL: Millions of OpenSSL-Secured Websites Are at Risk!
A recently discovered security vulnerability in OpenSSL allows a long-deprecated protocol, SSL v2 (Secure Sockets Layer) to be misused in attacks at modern websites. The new attack has been, perhaps fittingly, dubbed DROWN, an acronym for Decrypting RSA with Obsolete and Weakened eNcryption. Cyber security analysts believe it might shut down–or shall we say drown, more than one third of all HTTPS servers. Is yours one of them?
Juniper Networks’ Embarrassment Lives On in Its Flawed SSL Configuration
Recent revelations from the maker of networking gear Juniper Networks have shaken the industry: Juniper has identified unauthorized code in ScreenOS, its operating system that powers the NetScreen line of Juniper firewalls. Then last Friday, cryptography researchers revealed that Juniper has allowed changes to its code that could enable eavesdropping on encrypted virtual private network sessions of its customers.
The Open Source Community Mourns the death of Ian Murdock, the Creator of Debian
The untimely death of Ian Murdock, 42, on Dec. 28, 2015, has shaken the Linux community and the world of Open Source.
„Linux old timer. Debian founder. Sun alum. Salesforce ExactTarget exec.“
is how Ian Murdock described himself on his blog at ianmurdock.com.