Get a Pentest and security assessment of your IT network.

News

SHAttered attack, Google and CWI conducted the first SHA-1 collision attack

Experts at Google and CWI conducted the first real world collision attack against popular SHA-1 hashing algorithm, so called shattered-attack. A successful collision attack could be exploited by hackers to forge digital signatures. The attack is 100,000 times faster than a brute-force attack, it required nine quintillion (9,223,372,036,854,775,808) computations. The cost of computing the second block of the attack by renting Amazon instances can be estimated from these various data, it would cost roughly $560,000 for the necessary 71 device years.”]

Source: https://securityaffairs.co/wordpress/56608/hacking/shattered-attack.html

Related posts
News

Ashley Madison 2.0 Hackers Leak 20GB Data Dump, Including CEO's Emails

News

Art of Twitter account hacking

News

Take note, next week update Adobe Reader and Acrobat to fix critical flaws

News

NSA-linked Cisco exploit poses bigger threat than previously thought