Using computing power from a cluster of 200 PS3 game consoles and about $700 in test digital certificates, a group of hackers in the U.S. and Europe have found a way to target a known weakness in the ...

I was reading the new Ars article about Microsoft's decision to retire SHA-1 due to its vulnerability to collision attacks. The article mentions the well-publicized Flame attack of 2012, a key ...

In general, unless you're specifically tailoring input to produce collisions, collision risk of a (formerly, in case of md5 and by now also sha1) cryptographically secure hash function is not ...

Uber-malware Flame is the most complex tool for cyber espionage discovered in the wild to-date, expert cryptographers have said, the first example of an MD5 collision attack being used in earnest.

LAS VEGAS—Elie Bursztein, Google's lead anti-fraud researcher, began his talk here at Black Hat 2017 with an understatement: "It has been a long and interesting journey over the last few years." In ...