The old and insecure MD5 hashing function hasn’t been used to sign SSL/TLS server certificates in many years, but continues to be used in other parts of encrypted communications protocols, including ...

Verisign is kicking MD5 to the curb after researchers demonstrated the flawed algorithm allows hackers to duplicate an SSL certficate and steal information from users.

When Oracle publishes its next quarterly patch update in April, the company will begin treating JAR files signed with the MD5 hashing algorithm as unsigned.

Generating checksums—cryptographic hashes such as MD5 or SHA-256 functions for files is hardly anything new and one of the most efficient means to ascertain the integrity of a file, or to check if two ...

Microsoft released two optional security updates Tuesday to block digital certificates that use the MD5 hashing algorithm and to improve the network-level authentication for the Remote Desktop ...

As CAS vendors bring out more systems, experts are issuing warnings about the security of some CAS arrays that use the flawed MD5 hashing algorithm. Users of systems with MD5 are downplaying the ...

Luckily for Java users, the JDK contains nice implementations of the SHA-256 and SHA-512 hash algorithms, which are altogether more secure than MD5. So (note to self): there’s no excuse for using MD5 ...

A series of attacks on MD5, a hashing algorithm that's much more collision-prone than SHA1, provides a glimpse at the dire results of collision attacks. The Flame espionage malware, which the US ...

Microsoft has given customers six months to find MD5 installations and prepare for a February 2014 patch that will block the broken algorithm. The clock is running on Windows administrators to sweep ...