The attack targets IKE’s handshake implementation used for IPsec-based VPN connections, opening the door for MiTM attacks or for bad actors to access data carried in VPN sessions.

Juniper Networks on Friday acknowledged that exploits contained in the ShadowBrokers data dump do indeed target its products. “As part of our analysis of these files, we identified an attack against NetScreen devices running ScreenOS,” said Derrick Scholl, director of security incident response at Juniper. “We are examining the extent of the attack, but initial analysis...

If you’re hanging on to the theory that collision attacks against SHA-1 and MD5 aren’t yet practical, two researchers from INRIA, the French Institute for Research in Computer Science and Automation, have demonstrated new attacks that raise the urgency to move away from these broken cryptographic algorithms. Karthikeyan Bhargavan and Gaetan Leurent recently published an...