Cisco Provides Downloads SHA-512 Checksum

To prevent attackers from adjusting the integrity of downloaded files without users have this by networking giant Cisco has decided all images that users can download to give a SHA-512 checksum instead of the widely used MD5.

By using an algorithm as MD5 or SHA-512, there can be generated a checksum of a file. The checksum then makes it possible to check the integrity of a download. If the checksum on the website matches the checksum of the file calculated by the user himself, he can assume that the content is not modified.

The problem is that there are vulnerabilities in MD5 found that an attacker could modify a file without changing the checksum.The Flame virus was several years ago using here. SHA-512, according to Cisco therefore a safer alternative. How the checksum of a file can be calculated puts Cisco in this article from which the shasum tool is used.

Date 3.9 Million Members In Adult Dating Search Engine

This week that attackers had managed to steal a database of adult dating site Adult FriendFinder containing the personal information of 3.9 million members . The data were then made ​​public. Security expert Troy Hunt has this data now added to his " Haveibeenpwned.com "search engine.

For a variety of large data breaches that occurred in recent years, such as those from Adobe, with data from tens of millions of users were captured, Hunt decided to create a website that contains information from hacked databases. Internet users can search through this search engine or even their e-mail address is being stolen from such intrusion. The search engine now contains the details of all known hacked businesses and 183 million accounts.

The data come from burglaries at Adobe, Mail.ru , Bitcoin Security Forum, Snap Chat, Stratfor, Gawker, Forbes, Yahoo, Sony and other companies. Users can enter their email address on the website and get that message right away or they are listed in one of the stolen databases. Internet users also can sign up so they get automatically notified if their email address is listed in a stolen database that is added to the search engine in the future.

Google Rewards Users For Security Check With 2GB Storage

As part of Safer Internet Day gives Google users Google Drive 2 gigabytes of additional storage when a security check to perform. According to the Internet giant, users can check their account this way or it is secured. It prompts you to verify the data with which an account can be restored.

In case Google suspicious activity in an account detects users are accessed through this data. The second step in the security check consists of verifying the credentials. This allows users to see if there are others with stolen credentials to login to their account. Finally, it should be confirmed that apps and devices allowed to access account information. Once the audit is performed, there will be at the end of this month 2GB of storage space to be added. The action of Google is 17th February.