A fresh warning concerning the use of RC4 to support secure communication channels online has been issued after researchers were able to exploit the protocol to decrypt user data in mere hours.
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 ...
Microsoft has finally decided to discontinue the RC4 encryption method that has been supported by default in Windows for 26 years. By eliminating this old technology, which has been the target of ...
RC4 has been exploited in high-profile attacks across enterprise Windows networks Kerberoasting exploits weaknesses in Active Directory, allowing attackers to perform offline password cracking ...
A prominent US senator has called on the Federal Trade Commission to investigate Microsoft for “gross cybersecurity negligence,” citing the company’s continued use of an obsolete and vulnerable form ...
A paper, expected to be presented at USENIX, describes new attacks against RC4 that make plaintext recovery times practical and within reach of hackers. Two Belgian security researchers from the ...
RC4 has been exploited in high-profile attacks across enterprise Windows networks Kerberoasting exploits weaknesses in Active Directory, allowing attackers to perform offline password cracking ...