The good news is that most CA’s now use SHA-1 as their hash algorithm, but there are still a few CA’s that use MD5. But what I thought was a funny tidbit about the hack is that the researchers ...

Mountain View, Calif.-based Verisign, a managed security service provider, said that it has immediately discontinued the flawed MD5 cryptographic function used for digital signatures, while offering a ...

A team of security researchers and academics has broken a core piece of internet technology. They made their work public at the 25th Chaos Communication Congress in Berlin today. The team was able to ...

My company has a small team of software developers, who program applications for the business. Nothing too fancy. Sometimes the applications they produce are meant only for system-to-system ...

Microsoft released two optional security updates Tuesday to block digital certificates that use the MD5 hashing algorithm and to improve the network-level authentication for the Remote Desktop ...

Okay I admit it, sometimes I’ve been guilty of using the MD5 hashing algorithm in my code simply because it’s easily available in Java, it’s convenient and familiar, and I implicitly trust it. (Jeez, ...

SHA1, one of the Internet’s most crucial cryptographic algorithms, is so weak to a newly refined attack that it may be broken by real-world hackers in the next three months, an international team of ...

In 2009, while I was researching Surviving Cyberwar, I attended the COSAC security conference outside of Dublin for the first time. During an open session I posed this question to the attendees: “Can ...

Fifteen-year-old Peter Schmidt-Nielsen spent only a month working on his submission, but he thinks he’s come up with something “unusual and new.” Never mind that he’s up against some of the most ...