Rapid7 encouraged owners of its Nexpose appliances this week to apply an update to their systems to tweak how SSH is configured by default. ... encryption and MAC algorithms be used for key exchange.

“It is now possible to perform chosen-prefix attacks against the SHA-1 algorithm for less than USD$50K. For this reason, we will be disabling the "ssh-rsa" public key signature algorithm by ...

Cisco Systems said Thursday it released a patch for three products that shipped with default encryption keys, posing a risk that an attacker with the keys could decrypt data traffic. The products ...

The exploit leverages minor computational errors naturally occurring during the SSH handshake. Fortunately, it only works for RSA encryption. Unfortunately, RSA algorithms account for about one ...

Before issuing the SCP command issue eval ssh-agent to start the session. Make a note of the Process ID you are given when the session starts. Add your SSH key to the session with the command ssh-add.