Microsoft is moving to disable RC4, an encryption cipher embedded in Windows authentication for more than two decades. The decision follows years of documented abuse, repeated warnings from security ...

Microsoft is finally ripping out one of the weakest links in its identity stack, cutting off a legacy cipher that attackers have abused for years to walk straight into corporate networks. The move ...

RC4 encryption has been cracked for over a decade. Now Microsoft is slowly sweeping the last remnants, such as in Kerberos, away.

Microsoft will disable RC4 by default in Windows Kerberos, pushing organizations to uncover and eliminate longstanding cryptographic weaknesses hidden in legacy ...

About time: Microsoft introduced support for the RC4 stream cipher in Windows 2000 as the default authentication algorithm for the Active Directory services. The system has been insecure for even ...

Tor has announced improved encryption and security for the circuit traffic by replacing the old tor1 relay encryption algorithm with a new design called Counter Galois Onion (CGO). One reason behind ...

Quantum computers could crack a common data encryption technique once they have a million qubits, or quantum bits. While this is still well beyond the capabilities of existing quantum computers, this ...