Encryption is a hot and controversial topic these days and the latest to join the encryption party is popular messaging app Viber. Following in the footsteps of rival WhatsApp, which turned on ...

We found the marketplace, called Hansa, where the hacker, going by “nclay” is selling the data for 0.5587 bitcoins (equivalent to about Rs. 70,000). The listing comes with a sort of sample list of ...

eWEEK content and product recommendations are editorially independent. We may make money when you click on links to our partners. Learn More. By: Robert Lemos A known weakness in the MD5 hash function ...

Microsoft has given customers six months to find MD5 installations and prepare for a February 2014 patch that will block the broken algorithm. The clock is running on Windows administrators to sweep ...

At the 25th Chaos Communication Congress (CCC) today, researchers will reveal how they utilized a collision attack against the MD5 algorithm to create a rogue certificate authority. This is pretty big ...

The MD5 algorithm has a new vulnerability: Google! Here’s a piece of news that will worry anyone interested in security (which should be pretty much everyone who reads Network World): A programmer by ...

Suspected flaws in a computer algorithm have invalidated a fine issued by a speed camera in Australia. It turns out that a Sydney magistrate tossed out a speeding ticket after the Roads and Traffic ...

A more resilient spin off of the MD5 algorithm has been deemed unsafe by its developer. Poul-Henning Kamp designed the then resource-intensive MD5 crypt algorithm which would provide better ...

If you thought MD5 was banished from HTTPS encryption, you’d be wrong. It turns out the fatally weak cryptographic hash function, along with its only slightly stronger SHA1 cousin, are still widely ...

SANTA CRUZ, Calif. — Providing a cryptography solution for systems-on-chip, a design and verification engineer has developed an open-source core that implements the MD5 message digest algorithm. The ...