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Submission + - Deprecation of MD5 and SHA1 in a nick of time?

Submitted by mitcheli on Thursday January 07, 2016 @04:46PM

mitcheli writes: From the-damned-if-you-do-damned-if-you-dont dept:

If you’re hanging on to the theory that collision attacks against SHA-1 and MD5 aren’t yet practical, two researchers from INRIA, the French Institute for Research in Computer Science and Automation, have demonstrated new attacks that raise the urgency to move away from these broken cryptographic algorithms.

Of course, Mozilla officially began rejecting new SHA-1 certificates as of the first of the year. And as promised, there have been some usability issues. Mozilla yesterday said that some security scanners and antivirus products are keeping some from reaching HTTPS websites.

Submission + - Bad day for Cyber (kgmi.com)

Submitted by mitcheli on Wednesday July 08, 2015 @12:33PM

mitcheli writes: From the "skynet-has-become-selfaware" dept:
In short order, three major outages occurred morning. First United Airlines reported a system wide grounding of all flights due to "technical difficulties" with little details to follow. Following that, the New York Stock Exchange reported "technical difficulties" while suspending all trading. And now the Wall Street Journal's website is in limited operations due to "technical difficulties". While initial reports on NYSE state that there is no malicious activity as a result of the outage, few details have been released at this time.

Submission + - Sprint - beaten but not stirred.

Submitted by mitcheli on Tuesday July 30, 2013 @03:04AM

mitcheli writes: From the get-busy-living-or-get-busy-dying department:

Sprint announced a Q2 loss of $1.6B dollars as 2 million subscribers left their service. While Sprint remains one of very few carriers to continue to allow unlimited data on their networks, the failure to reconcile two competing network technologies (iDEN Nextel and CDMA Sprint) combined with the lack of upgrades to their network and degrading service prompted a mass exodus of subscribers from their network. Of course the fact that during the iPhone 5 release, Sprint openly advertised that their iPhone would not be carrier locked, only to turn around and push out an OTA two months later that locked them probably didn't help much either.

Submission + - Carrier IQ drama continues... (senate.gov) 1

Submitted by mitcheli on Friday December 02, 2011 @12:42PM

mitcheli writes: Following the video from Trevor Eckhart on Youtube after the filing of the Cease and Desist letter and subsequent reply by the EFF and apology letter (as reported on Slashdot)... Senator Franken of the Subcommittee on Privacy Technology and the Law asks some rather pointed questions.

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