Microsoft is continuing its push to modernize Windows security, and this time the focus is on strengthening Kerberos authentication across the platform. The company is preparing a major Kerberos ...

Microsoft is officially moving to shut the door on RC4 - a legacy cryptographic cipher that has quietly persisted inside Windows authentication environments for decades - and forcing organizations to ...

Microsoft is killing off an obsolete and vulnerable encryption cipher that Windows has supported by default for 26 years following more than a decade of devastating hacks that exploited it and ...

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U.S. Senator Ron Wyden has sent a letter to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) requesting the agency to investigate Microsoft for failing to provide adequate security in its products, which led to ...

A fresh firestorm has erupted over Microsoft’s handling of cybersecurity risks, with U.S. Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR) calling on the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to investigate the company for what he ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Computer scientists often deal with abstract problems that are hard to comprehend, but an exciting new algorithm matters to anyone who ...

Abstract: RC4 algorithm is a famous stream cipher. It could be used to encrypt images quickly and efficient. However, the RC4 has been proved has some drawbacks, therefore it is considered not secure ...