Recent advances push Big Tech closer to the Q-Day danger zone

As the joke goes, CRQC has been 10 to 20 years away for the past three decades. While the recent research suggests that ...
InfoWorld

Microsoft: MD5 hack poses no major threats to users

Mozilla also acknowledged the MD5 algorithm could be hacked and phony digital certificates created as a result, but said it hadn't seen any evidence of actual attacks In reaction to the news today ...
CSOonline

MD5 attack puts RADIUS networks everywhere at risk

A design flaw in the decades-old RADIUS authentication protocol allows attackers to take over network devices from a man-in-the-middle position by exploiting MD5 hash collisions. The “secure enough” ...
Computerworld

SSL cert. hash hacked on PS3 farm

In New Year’s eve’s IT Blogwatch, Richi Jennings watches bloggers watch the MD5 hash algorithm get broken — by a farm of PlayStations — with worrying ...