The MD5 password hash algorithm is "no longer considered safe" by the original software developer, a day after the leak of more than 6.4 million hashed LinkedIn passwords.

If you thought MD5 was banished from HTTPS encryption, you'd be wrong. It turns out the fatally weak cryptographic hash function, along with its only slightly stronger SHA1 cousin, are still ...

Flame attackers' ability to forge a valid certificate for Windows Update should be a warning to companies to stop using the MD5 algorithm to issue security certificates.

Microsoft has given customers six months to find MD5 installations and prepare for a February 2014 patch that will block the broken algorithm.

The MD5 algorithm has a new vulnerability: Google! Here’s a piece of news that will worry anyone interested in security (which should be pretty much everyone who reads Network World): A ...

Finding a MD5 Hash Checker Tool is not hard, but finding the best one can take some time. Thankfully, we are here to deliver the goods.

MD5 is widely used in secured communications devices for applications such as keyed authentication, Mittra said. Although there are open-source cores for other encryption algorithms, Pancham, which ...

At the 25th Chaos Communication Congress (CCC) today, researchers will reveal how they utilized a collision attack against the MD5 algorithm to create a rogue certificate authority. This is pretty ...