Security News

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?...

Secure messaging app Wickr opens core crypto protocol to review (Help Net Security)
2017-02-16 15:52

Wickr, the San Francisco-based company that’s behind the secure ephemeral messaging app of the same name, has published the core crypto protocol powering both the personal and the business...