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 ...

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 ...

A Microsoft update that will disable the compromised RC4 stream cipher on Windows systems was released on Tuesday. The update is described in Security Advisory 2868725, but it seems to have gone ...

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 ...

Google and Mozilla today announced they’ve settled on a timeframe to permanently deprecate the shaky RC4 encryption algorithm. Google, Microsoft and Mozilla today announced they’ve settled on a ...

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Microsoft released optional security updates Tuesday for various versions of the .NET Framework that prevent the RC4 encryption algorithm from being used in TLS (Transport Layer Security) connections.

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 ...

The decision to remove RC4 from IE, Edge, Chrome, and Firefox is final nail in the coffin for the vulnerable cryptographic algorithm After years of security experts demanding the RC4 stream cipher be ...

A Microsoft update that will disable the compromised RC4 stream cipher on Windows systems was released on Tuesday. The update is described in Security Advisory 2868725, but it seems to have gone ...