Security News > 2017 > February

New attack sounds death knell for widely used SHA-1 crypto hash function (Help Net Security)
2017-02-24 13:07

SHA-1 is definitely, provenly dead, as a group of researchers from CWI Institute in Amsterdam and Google have demonstrated the first practical technique for generating a collision. What is SHA-1?...

Which countermeasures improve security and which are a waste of money? (Help Net Security)
2017-02-24 12:40

If you want to know about which cyber defenses are most effective and which are a waste of money and resources, ask a hacker. And that’s just what Nuix researchers did. “During Black Hat USA and...

Results of the rogue Access Point experiment at RSA Conference 2017 (Help Net Security)
2017-02-24 12:30

The security of open Wi-Fi hotspots has been a subject of great concern for years. But, would believe that we were overwhelmingly successful using Wi-Fi attacks dating back twelve years on the RSA...

Palantir and the NSA (Schneier on Security)
2017-02-24 12:26

The Intercept has a long article on the relationship between Palantir Technologies and the NSA, based on the Snowden documents....

New infosec products of the week​: February 24, 2017 (Help Net Security)
2017-02-24 12:15

Security solutions for IoT automotive telematics Building a secure automotive telematics platform to achieve a profitable business model for automakers and ecosystem partners is a challenging task...