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‘Blast-RADIUS’ Critical Bug Blows Up IT Vacation Plans

Richi Jennings | July 10, 2024 | blast radius, collision-based-hashing-algorithm-disclosure, CVE-2024-3596, hash, hash algorithms, hash function, hash functions, Man In The Middle, man in the middle attack, man in the middle attacks, maninthemiddleattacks, md5 hash, men-in-the-middle attack, mitm, MitM Attack, mitm attacks, RADIUS, SB Blogwatch

MD5 MITM Muddle: Ancient, widely used protocol has CVSS 9.0 vulnerability ...

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1989 Tiananmen Square “Tank Man” image, with the text “inappropriate speech” superimposed

China Cracks Apple Private Protocol — AirDrop Pwned

Richi Jennings | January 10, 2024 | Airdrop, Apple, Beijing Wangshendongjian, china, Chinese, Chinese Communists, Chinese drive-by attack, chinese government, Great Firewall of China, hash, hash algorithms, hash function, hash functions, hash generation, hashes, Peoples Republic of China, rainbow table, SB Blogwatch

AirDrop hashing is weaksauce: Chinese citizens using peer-to-peer wireless comms “must be identified.” ...

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Amazing Fast Crypto for IoT — US NIST Fingers ASCON

Richi Jennings | February 9, 2023 | AEAD, aes, ASCON, CAESAR, cryptography, hash, hash algorithms, hash function, hash functions, Internet of things, Internet of Things (IoT), Internet of Things (IoT) Security, Internet of Things cyber security, iot, NIST, SB Blogwatch

Implementing modern cryptography standards on tiny IoT devices is hard. They’re underpowered, need to sip battery charge and something like AES is often overkill ...

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How to Prevent High Risk Authentication Coercion Vulnerabilities

Tripwire Guest Authors | August 28, 2022 | Authentication, cyberattack, Featured Articles, hash, vulnerability, Vulnerability Management

Most of us already know the basic principle of authentication, which, in its simplest form, helps us to identify and verify a user, process, or account. In an Active Directory environment, this ...

The State of Security

EH-Net - Daw - Ease Me Into Cryptography Part 1 - 1 Bite at a Time

Ease Me Into Cryptography Part 1: Buzzwords and Hash Function

Ellie Daw | September 26, 2018 | /root, Crypto, hash, highlight, python

You know what it’s like being in security, and someone asks you what you do. Now imagine the responses when I tell people I do cryptography. And it’s not just outsiders. Even ...

The Ethical Hacker Network

Stop using MD-5, now!

Z | March 25, 2014 | hash, Malware, MD-5

TL;DR: Don't use MD-5 to identify malware samples. Believe me, it is a bad idea. Use SHA-256 or a stronger hash function.This post is dedicated to all malware researchers, still using MD-5 ...

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