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Disgraced eMudhra drops out of TLS business after using cert private key of 4

eMudhra, the certificate authority that issued eight intermediate TLS credentials so weak that anyone could mint certificates for any website or mail server—one had a private encryption key of just 4—said it’s getting out of the business. V. Srinivasan, chairman of India-based eMudhra Limited, cited increasing costs and complexities of compliance requirements—paired with the business...

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333 Tor exit nodes hijacked to intercept SSH traffic and retrieve plaintext email

Unknown hackers hijacked more than 300 Tor exit nodes and reconfigured them to favor unencrypted email traffic and redirect SSH connections through servers they controlled, a researcher reported Tuesday. The hijacking began in late August, when, according to Tor volunteers, the attacker used a valid password that had been reused to gain access to a...

5 Takeaways: Reese, Howard Make Finals History as Dream Rout Valkyries 97-71
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5 Takeaways: Reese, Howard Make Finals History as Dream Rout Valkyries 97-71

Angel Reese is making history. Rhyne Howard is rewriting the record books on defense. And the Atlanta Dream are suddenly halfway to their first WNBA championship. Photo by Adam Hagy/NBAE via Getty Images. Reese continued her historic postseason run Wednesday night, Howard delivered another record-setting defensive performance, and the Dream overwhelmed the Golden State Valkyries...

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PHP warns it plans to release 2 emergency patches imminently

Website admins, brace yourselves. Fixes for what are believed to be uncommonly severe vulnerabilities are scheduled to drop in a little more than 12 hours for PHP, a programming language that powers websites and Web applications everywhere. PHP maintainers said Monday that they planned to release patches for two vulnerabilities, both with severity ratings of...

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Enterprises keep buying software upgrades that IT thinks will make things worse

Enterprise-sized businesses spend, on average, 28 percent of their software budgets on unwanted upgrades, migrations, and licensing changes. Often, those firms’ IT heads think those changes are detrimental. Those results are according to a survey of 2,018 chief information officers and senior IT decision-makers at companies with at least 10,000 employees that Origina commissioned for...