The original author of the MD5 password hash algorithmhas publicly declared his software end-of-life and is "no longer considered safe" to use on commercial websites. This comes only a day after a ...

We found the marketplace, called Hansa, where the hacker, going by “nclay” is selling the data for 0.5587 bitcoins (equivalent to about Rs. 70,000). The listing comes with a sort of sample list of ...

A more resilient spin off of the MD5 algorithm has been deemed unsafe by its developer. Poul-Henning Kamp designed the then resource-intensive MD5 crypt algorithm which would provide better ...

eWEEK content and product recommendations are editorially independent. We may make money when you click on links to our partners. Learn More. By: Robert Lemos A known weakness in the MD5 hash function ...

At the 25th Chaos Communication Congress (CCC) today, researchers will reveal how they utilized a collision attack against the MD5 algorithm to create a rogue certificate authority. This is pretty big ...