IntroductionIn February 2022, BlackBasta emerged as a successor to Conti ransomware and quickly rose to prominence. BlackBasta was operational for three years until February 2025 when their internal ...

Specops outlines the strong defenses organizations need today, from salted hashing and MFA to compromised password screening, ...

A critical vulnerability in the wolfSSL encryption library, used in billions of apps and devices, allows attackers to forge digital signatures and spoof trusted entities.

A $30,000 AI GPU doesn't outperform consumer GPUs at password cracking. Specops explains why attackers don't need exotic ...

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In the realm of computer science, it’s hard to go too far without encountering hashing or hash functions. The concept appears throughout security, from encryption to password storage to crypto, and ...

Gravatar officially supports sha256 as its email hashing algorithm in mid-2024. It now suggests using sha256 as its email hashing algorithm to avoid hash collisions and privacy concerns.

Computing practitioners encounter hash functions almost every day, although they may not necessarily be the center of attention. When you install software packages or updates, the authenticity of a ...

Hashing is a cryptographic process that allows converting any type of data into a unique fixed-size numeric value called “hash”. Hashes are generated using hashing algorithms that are both ...

ABSTRACT: This survey article illustrates many important current trends and perspectives for the field and their applications, of interest to researchers in modern algebra, mathematical logic and ...