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OpenSSH Will Deprecate SHA-1

OpenSSH will soon deprecate the use of SHA-1 because of the risk of specific attacks against the algorithm.

SSH, Cryptography

Stolen Credentials Behind Supercomputing Attacks

Compromised credentials and empty SSH passphrases led to the string of attacks on academic supercomputing sites in recent weeks.

Supercomputers

Two Years of GDPR Changed Privacy Landscape

Two years may have passed since enforcement of the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation began, but regulators are just wrapping up the first wave of investigations. Change comes slowly in the realm of data privacy, and it is still too soon to try to improve the regulation.

GDPR, Privacy

Hacker Allegedly Connected to Collection 1 Credential Dump Arrested

Authorities in Ukraine arrested a suspect they say is Sanix, a hacker connected to the sale of the huge Collection 1 credential database.

Cybercrime

Most Applications Contain Vulnerable Open Source Libraries

Modern software development relies on open source libraries, even for those applications that are sold commercially and aren’t open source. A pair of reports from Veracode and Synopsys illustrate how these components are introducing vulnerabilities into these applications.

Open Source, Application Security, Javascript