Security News > 2017 > March > 21% of websites still use insecure SHA-1 certificates (Help Net Security)

New research from Venafi Labs shows that 21 percent of the world’s websites are still using certificates signed with the vulnerable Secure Hash Algorithm, SHA-1. On February 23, 2017, Google affiliated security researchers announced they cracked the SHA-1 security standard using a collision attack. The incident proved that the deprecated cryptographic secure hash algorithm still used to sign many website digital certificates can be manipulated. Newly issued certificates using the SHA-2 family of hash functions … More →

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