A new social engineering campaign is abusing fake CAPTCHA verification pages to trick Windows users into launching StealC information-stealing malware. The attack relies on compromised websites that ...
The day when quantum computers will be able to break conventional encryption is rapidly approaching, but not all companies are prepared to implement post-quantum cryptography. Quantum-safe encryption ...
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 ...
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 ...
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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As organizations face an evolving threat landscape, strengthening Windows authentication is more critical than ever. The deprecation of RC4 (Rivest Cipher 4) encryption in Kerberos is a shift toward ...