Kaspersky warns that passwords hashed with MD5 algorithm can be cracked in minutes using a GPU

Just in time for World Password Day, Kaspersky is reminding everyone that outdated hashing algorithms such as MD5 remain among the worst choices for storing passwords.
techtimes

Viber Defends Its Encryption Implementation: No Backdoors, No Cryptographically Insecure MD5 Algorithm

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 ...
Infosecurity-magazine.com

Proof of Concept Attack Further Discredits MD5

Researchers from the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne in Switzerland, the Eindhoven University of Technology and the University of Berkeley among others used the machines to create a rogue ...
Ars Technica

Fatally weak MD5 function torpedoes crypto protections in HTTPS and IPSEC

If you thought MD5 was banished from HTTPS encryption, you’d be wrong. It turns out the fatally weak cryptographic hash function, along with its only slightly stronger SHA1 cousin, are still widely ...
eWeek

Microsoft Scraps Old Encryption in New Code

In this episode of eSpeaks, Jennifer Margles, Director of Product Management at BMC Software, discusses the transition from traditional job scheduling to the era of the autonomous enterprise. eSpeaks’ ...
MIT Technology Review

Sharing Fingerprints

Sensitive online documents, such as certificates that vouch for banking sites, bear “digital fingerprints” that identify them without revealing their contents. The fingerprints are produced from the ...