MD5 insecure? Absolutely. SSL hacked? Sort of, but it’s not broken. CA negligence? You decide.
In IT security, it pays to know the difference between trust and verifiable truth.
The uses of cryptographic hash functions for security capabilities in software are many and varied. Ruby provides simple and easy options for generating and comparing cryptographic hashes.
You can use cryptographic hash functions to provide a little more security when exchanging files.
Check out the Perspectives extension for Firefox to improve validation of HTTPS encrypted session certificates.
Find out how you can make Gmail encrypt your entire session when you check your email, and why you should do so right now.
Read about ten very basic, easily avoided security mistakes that should never be made — but are among the most common security mistakes people make.
Google has done it again: just over a month since the open source release of RatProxy comes a cryptographic toolkit called Keyczar.
Just when you think you’ve seen the worst case of bad authentication policy you’ll ever see, you’ll stumble across something even more surprising and unfathomable.
There’s more to selecting an enterprise second-factor authentication method than meets the retina scanner… As with any IT project, each dollar spent must produce business value. With M-F authentication, this translates to value beyond simply verifying an employee’s identity.