Security News

Comey Talks Strong Crypto, Silent on WikiLeaks (Threatpost)
2017-03-08 16:02

FBI Director James Comey revived old rhetoric on strong encryption during a keynote at the Boston Conference on Cyber Security. He did not address the leak of CIA hacking tools or Russia during his talk.

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?...