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SeaCat Technology and the Latest OpenSSL Update (1.1.0e)
We help you to operate your mobile and IoT apps securely. You may have noticed that OpenSSL released a new version on February 16, 2017. The new version fixed one high-severity issue regarding renegotiation of the Encrypt-then-MAC (EtM) extension.
Published on February 21, 2017
SeaCat Technology and the Latest OpenSSL Update (1.1.0d, 1.0.2k)
We help you to operate your mobile and IoT apps securely. You may have noticed that OpenSSL released a new version on 26 January 2017. The new release fixed one low-severity issue and three moderate ones.
Published on January 26, 2017
SeaCat Application Security Technology Is Not Impacted by the Dirty Cow Issue (CVE-2016-5195)
The new vulnerability, DirtyCOW, (CVE-2016-5195) exploits a flaw in private read-only memory mappings. However, this critical impact vulnerability has existed in Linux for nine years and only got discovered recently.
Published on October 25, 2016
SeaCat Application Security Technology Is Not Impacted by the SWEET32 Issue (CVE-2016-2183)
The new vulnerability CVE-2016-2183 affects the 3DES block cipher in TLS and OpenVPN software. During an attack, attackers need to find a collision of block cipher initialization vector used at the beginning of the encrypted data stream and decrypt the traffic between the victim and the server.
Published on August 26, 2016
OpenSSL emergency release impact analysis re TeskaLabs' SeaCat
We help you to operate your mobile app(s) securely. You might have noticed that OpenSSL has recently announced an emergency release because they identified a series of security defects, rated with maximum severity High. The version of fixed OpenSSL is 1.0.2h, released on 3rd May 2016.
Published on May 04, 2016
OpenSSL DROWN Vulnerability Affects Millions of HTTPS Websites and Software Supporting SSLv2 (CVE-2016-0800)
DROWN is caused by legacy OpenSSL SSLv2 protocol, known to have many deficiencies. Security experts have recommended to turn it off, but apparently many servers still support it because disabling SSLv2 requires non-default reconfiguration of the SSL cryptographic settings which is not easy for common IT people who have limited security knowledge and don’t know the location to disable this protocol and the way to disable it.
Published on April 12, 2016
TeskaLabs’ Technology SeaCat Unaffected by GNU C Library Security Vulnerability (CVE-2015-7547)
TeskaLabs, a Prague and London based startup in application security, today affirmed that their core products are not exposed to the GLibC flaw, a highly critical security vulnerability. There is now a rapidly growing number of IoT devices that use Linux as their operating system and inherently GLibC.
Published on February 17, 2016