Tag: SHA-1
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Goodbye SHA-1: NIST Retires 27-Year-Old Widely Used Cryptographic Algorithm
The U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), an agency within the Department of Commerce, announced Thursday that it’s …
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NIST says you better dump weak SHA-1 … by 2030
The US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) says it’s time to retire Secure Hash Algorithm-1 (SHA-1), a 27-year-old weak …
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Git’s move away from SHA-1: Version 2.29 brings experimental SHA-256 support
The latest version of Linus Torvalds’ Git version-control system brings experimental support for the SHA-256 cryptographic hash, moving it …
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Microsoft reprieves SHA-1 deprecation in Edge 85 security baseline
Microsoft has published a new security baseline for Microsoft Edge and one of the new rules is titled “Allow certificates signed using …
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Microsoft to remove all SHA-1 Windows downloads next week
Microsoft announced this week plans to remove all Windows-related file downloads from the Microsoft Download Center that are …
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Got $50k spare? Then you can crack SHA-1 – so OpenSSH is deprecating flawed hashing algo in a ‘near-future release’
The maintainers of OpenSSH, widely used for connecting securely to servers and devices over networks, have warned that the SHA-1 algorithm …
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OpenSSH eases admin hassles with FIDO U2F token support
OpenSSH version 8.2 is out and the big news is that the world’s most popular remote management software now supports authentication using …
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Hash snag: Security shamans shame SHA-1 standard, confirm crucial collisions citing circa $45k chip cost
SHA-1 stands for Secure Hash Algorithm but version 1, developed in 1995, isn’t secure at all. It has been vulnerable in theory since 2004 …
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Hostinger upgrades password security after 14m accounts breached
Over the weekend, millions of customers of web hosting company Hostinger started receiving emails bearing the bad news that their passwords …
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Pass the salt! Popular CMSs aren’t securing passwords properly
A group of researchers has discovered that many of the web’s most popular content management systems are using insecure algorithms to …
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Apple deprecates SHA-1 certificates in iOS 13 and macOS Catalina
More than two years after Google, Firefox, and Microsoft have taken steps to deprecate TLS/SSL certificates signed with the SHA-1 …
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Flipboard data breach – what users should do now
Popular news aggregation site Flipboard – one billion app downloads from Google Play and counting – has become the latest internet …
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