Neowin News Feed for: Hash

Apple delays plans for iCloud scanning of CSAM

Usama Jawad — Sat, 04 Sep 2021 04:32:01 +0000

Apple has decided to postpone plans for the rollout of a child safety feature that scanned hashes of iCloud Photos uploads in order to determine if users are storing child sex abuse material (CSAM). Read more...

T-Mobile Austria stores passwords in plain text because its security is 'amazingly good'

Usama Jawad — Sun, 08 Apr 2018 08:04:02 +0000

In a mind-boggling series of tweets, T-Mobile Austria's social media managers have confirmed that it stores customer passwords as plain text because its security is "amazingly good". Read more...

HashCheck 2.4.0

Razvan Serea — Thu, 23 Mar 2017 18:26:01 +0000

HashCheck Shell Extension for Windows with added SHA2, SHA3, and multithreading. Read more...

Apple admits iOS 10 backups have weak password hashing, will issue a fix soon

Vlad Dudau — Mon, 26 Sep 2016 13:34:01 +0000

Apple's iOS 10 may be an outlier when it comes to improved security. Researchers are saying Apple took a big step backwards with the way it hashes backup passwords. Apple says it will fix the issue. Read more...

Stealing login details from a PC or Mac is as easy as plugging in a USB computer

Justin Luna — Fri, 09 Sep 2016 14:04:02 +0000

A security engineer has discovered a method to steal login credentials from Windows and Mac computers by simply using a Linux-powered USB minicomputer, disguising the device as an Ethernet adapter. Read more...

Hasher 3.2.0.3 Beta

Razvan Serea — Mon, 03 Aug 2015 21:56:01 +0000

Hashing utility for verifying integrity of files using a wide range of supported algorithms: CRC32, MD2, MD4, MD5, SHA1, SHA256, SHA512, RipeMD128, RipeMD160, ED2K. Read more...