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Monday review - the hot 22 stories of the week

by Anna Brading on December 10, 2012 | Leave a comment

Here you go.

All the stories we wrote in the past seven days, in case you missed anything (or just want to read them again).

SHA-1 brute-force attack trimmed by 21% - paper from Oslo password hacking conference

by Paul Ducklin on December 9, 2012 | Leave a comment
SHA-1 brute-force attack trimmed by 21% - paper from Oslo password hacking conference

Jens Steube, author of the pasword cracking tool hashcat, can make your SHA-1 password cracking tool 25% faster.

Just like that.

SHA-3 hash competition concludes, and the winner is...Keccak!

by Paul Ducklin on October 4, 2012 | 1 Comment
SHA-3 hash competition concludes, and the winner is...Keccak!

Five years, 64 entries and three rounds of cryptographic cook-off later, and we finally have a winner of the Secure Hash Algorithm 3 competition: Keccak.

We explain how it's different, and why, and we tell you how to pronounce it...

Microsoft speaks out on Flame malware certificate forgery

by Paul Ducklin on June 7, 2012 | 12 Comments
Microsoft speaks out on Flame malware certificate forgery

Microsoft has now gone public with additional information about the certificate forgery in the Flame malware. The attackers used an MD5 collision.

Learn more about hash collisions, and how to avoid them in your own IT environment.

SHA-1 cracked for $2. Or a load of rubbish?

by Paul Ducklin on November 19, 2010 | 9 Comments
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We're into the back end of November, so you were probably thinking that nothing would have time to oust Stuxnet as computer security hyperbole of the year.

Seems you were wrong. The security news wires are abuzz with a new story.