Security News

Millions of smart devices in Spain are vulnerable to attack (Help Net Security)
2017-02-28 13:00

Avast revealed the findings of its research experiment into smart devices, including public and private webcam vulnerabilities in Spain, and, specifically, in Barcelona. Avast identified more than...

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?...

First Practical SHA-1 Collision Attack Arrives (Threatpost)
2017-02-23 18:17

Researchers unveiled the first-ever practical collision attack the cryptographic hash function SHA-1.