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 ...

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” ...