NIST chooses winner in secure hash algorithm competition

Mark Rockwell Top Priority Sector:  cyber_security NIST said “catch-ack” in selecting a new algorithm that could be used as part of a secure foundation for future information technologies. The agency announced the winner of its five-year-long Secure Hash Algorithm (SHA-3) Competition on Oct. 2, choosing “Keccak”  –   which it said…

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PHP fixes hash collision DoS vulnerability in PHP 5.3.9

The PHP development team has released version 5.3.9 of the popular Web development platform in order to address a recently disclosed denial-of-service (DoS) vulnerability, as well as other security issues and bugs. The DoS vulnerability was disclosed in December 2011 at the Chaos Communication Congress, Europe’s largest hacker conference, by…

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