SecurityFocus

Survey: One in seven SSL certificates are weak
News Brief, 2009-01-05
The latest survey by network-monitoring firm Netcraft finds that about 14 percent of certificates use the vulnerable MD5 hashing algorithm.

Microsoft's music players die for a day
News Brief, 2009-01-02
A bug in the clock driver freezes older 30GB Zune music players on December 31. The fix? Wait a day.

Group attacks flaw in browser crypto security
Robert Lemos, 2008-12-30

A group of researchers warns browser makers and certificate authorities to drop support for MD5 digital signatures, after successfully creating a fake, but valid, certificate.

Zune music players crashing en masse
Chinese schools, search sites host malicious code
Digital picture frame viruses back for Christmas
Microsoft flaw may add to SQL-injection troubles
Hash contest moves on to mass free-for-all
Microsoft issues out-of-band patch

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