Recently, a group of international security researchers demonstrated successful attacks against the Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) used to issue security certificates to Web sites when the signatures ...

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 ...

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 ...

Oracle says that starting with April 18, 2017, Java (JRE) will treat all JAR files signed with the MD5 algorithm as unsigned, meaning they'll be considered insecure and blocked from running. Oracle ...

Encryption is a hot and controversial topic these days and the latest to join the encryption party is popular messaging app Viber. Following in the footsteps of rival WhatsApp, which turned on ...