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Cisco Secure Firewall Adaptive Security Appliance and Secure Firewall Threat Defense Software SSL VPN Denial of Service Vulnerability

Cisco expanded an SSL VPN denial-of-service advisory to cover all ASA and FTD software platforms; unauthenticated attackers can exhaust device memory.

A vulnerability in the VPN and management web servers of Cisco ASA Software and Cisco Secure FTD Software allows an unauthenticated remote attacker to exhaust system memory or buffer blocks, causing a denial of service. Originally scoped to the ASAv and FTDv virtual appliances, Cisco updated the advisory on September 16, 2026 to cover all ASA and FTD platforms.

Iranian banks' SSL certificates are being revoked due to OFAC sanctions

OFAC sanctions are reportedly causing Iranian banks' SSL certificates to be revoked, threatening secure HTTPS access to their services.

A Hacker News discussion highlights a report that Iranian banks' SSL/TLS certificates are being revoked as a consequence of OFAC sanctions. Certificate revocation would degrade or break trusted HTTPS connections to affected banking domains for users in Iran. The item is a headline-only discussion post with limited detail on which certificate authorities or banks are affected.

I've factored the RSA keys of a Certificate Authority from the 90s

Security researcher factored two 512-bit RSA root CA keys from defunct 1990s certificate authority E-Certify using CADO-NFS on a desktop in roughly 30 hours each.

A researcher extracted legacy root certificates from archived Netscape and Internet Explorer installers, identifying two 512-bit RSA roots shipped with Netscape 4.51 in 1999 by the defunct Canadian CA E-Certify. Using CADO-NFS on a Ryzen 9 5950X desktop, the keys were factored in 32 and 29 hours respectively, allowing private key reconstruction. The work comes shortly after RSA-260 (862-bit) was factored, the largest known factorization to date. The researcher also built a legacy TLS server and published keys and tools on GitHub.