The potential for hash collision attack is garnering quite a bit of discussion on Twitter under the hash tag #hashdos and video of the researchers' presentation is posted on YouTube.

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But to put this event in the proper perspective, the finding of a hash collision does not mean the end of the world if your current security products use the SHA-1 hashing algorithm.

The PHP development team has released version 5.3.9 of the popular Web development platform in order to address a recently disclosed denial-of-service (DoS) vulnerability, as well as other ...

The PHP development team has released version 5.3.9 of the popular Web development platform in order to address a recently disclosed denial-of-service (DoS) ...

However, there were two cases where hash collisions occurred with irrelevant images that were not edited and did not look similar. Below is an example of a successful hash collision.

Microsoft said that the MD5 hash collision attack the Flame malware hackers used was in order to compromise Windows Vista and 7 computers.

Security researchers have pointed out that this hash matching algorithm 'Neural Hash' has a defect of 'hash collision ' in which the same hash is detected from different images.