New research into attacks against the SHA-1 cryptographic algorithm lessen the cost and time to arrive at a practical collision. When Bruce Schneier made his oft-cited and mathematically sound ...

Using computing power from a cluster of 200 PS3 game consoles and about $700 in test digital certificates, a group of hackers in the U.S. and Europe have found a way to target a known weakness in the ...

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 ...

LAS VEGAS—Elie Bursztein, Google's lead anti-fraud researcher, began his talk here at Black Hat 2017 with an understatement: "It has been a long and interesting journey over the last few years." In ...

A design flaw in the decades-old RADIUS authentication protocol allows attackers to take over network devices from a man-in-the-middle position by exploiting MD5 hash collisions. The “secure enough” ...

The old and insecure MD5 hashing function hasn’t been used to sign SSL/TLS server certificates in many years, but continues to be used in other parts of encrypted communications protocols, including ...