The recent announcement from Google that researchers documented a collision with theSecure Hash Algorithm 1 (SHA-1) cryptographic hash function has enormous implications for the IT industry. Whether ...

Mozilla has warned Firefox users that its decision to reject SHA-1 certificates has caused an unfortunate side effect: some man-in-the-middle devices, such as security scanners and antivirus products, ...

Security experts are warning that a security flaw has been found in a powerful data encryption algorithm, dubbed SHA-1, by a team of scientists from Shandong University in China. The three scientists ...

OpenSSH, the most popular utility for connecting to and managing remote servers, has announced today plans to drop support for its SHA-1 authentication scheme. The OpenSSH team cited security concerns ...

The RC4 and SHA-1 algorithms have taken a lot of hits in recent years, with new attacks popping up on a regular basis. Many security experts and cryptographers have been recommending that vendors ...

Microsoft has announced it will no longer support the insecure SHA-1 hash algorithm for HTTPS from 14 February next year, adding further urgency for webmasters to transition to SHA-2. Weaknesses in ...

Both Microsoft's Internet Explorer and Edge Web browsers will deny SHA-1 certificates for security later this year. SHA-1 is a cryptographic algorithm that's used for Internet security, such as with ...

San Francisco — Three Chinese researchers said last week that they have compromised the SHA-1 hashing algorithm at the core of many of today's mainstream security products. In the wake of the news, ...

This morning, security researchers working with Google announced that they have successfully created a technique for engineering a collision using the SHA-1 hash function, potentially endangering ...

Windows 10 security: 'So good, it can block zero-days without being patched' Systems running the Windows 10 Anniversary Update were shielded from two exploits even before Microsoft had issued patches ...

Details on the broken state of the Secure Hash Algorithm-1 (SHA-1) were released by security experts at Google last week. SHA-1 is a 20-year-old cryptographic approach that's long been used to protect ...

Google this week announced that Shell Hashing Algorithm-1 (SHA-1) has been broken. SHA-1 is a 20-year-old cryptographic approach that's long been used to protect Web traffic. Its use was officially ...