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Month Archives: February 2017

SHA-1 Collisions Research

Thursday, February 23, 2017

Today, a group of eight researchers from across the security industry released a research report on SHA-1 that demonstrates for the first time, a “hash collision” for the full SHA-1 hash algorithm (called “SHAttered”). This is a significant step toward understanding this type of security issue, a milestone in cryptanalysis that has been underway for the past decade.

February 2017 security update release

Tuesday, February 14, 2017

UPDATE: 2/15/17: We will deliver updates as part of the planned March Update Tuesday, March 14, 2017. Our top priority is to provide the best possible experience for customers in maintaining and protecting their systems. This month, we discovered a last minute issue that could impact some customers and was not resolved in time for our planned updates today.