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S3 Ep120: When dud crypto simply won’t let go [Audio + Text]

February 2, 2023 0 Comments collision, Cryptography, hive, Law & order, MD5, Naked Security Podcast, Podcast, Ransomware, samba, vulnerability

Credit to Author: Paul Ducklin| Date: Thu, 02 Feb 2023 17:50:29 +0000

Latest episode – listen now!

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Serious Security: The Samba logon bug caused by outdated crypto

January 30, 2023 0 Comments cifs, collision, Cryptography, cve-2022-38023, mac, MD5, message digest, samba, smb, vulnerability

Credit to Author: Paul Ducklin| Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2023 17:59:03 +0000

Enjoy our Serious Security deep dive into this real-world example of why cryptographic agility is important!

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Serious Security: MD5 considered harmful – to the tune of $600,000

November 30, 2022 0 Comments cnil, Cryptography, edf, hashing, Law & order, MD5, pbkdf2

Credit to Author: Paul Ducklin| Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2022 17:58:49 +0000

It’s not just the hashing, by the way. It’s the salting and the stretching, too!

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XKCD forums breached

September 3, 2019 0 Comments bcrypt, breach, correcthorsebatterystaple, Cryptography, data breach, data leak, data loss, hashing, MD5, phpBB, salting, security threats, vulnerability, xkcd

Credit to Author: Lisa Vaas| Date: Tue, 03 Sep 2019 10:17:58 +0000

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