Microsoft finally kills off RC4 encryption cipher blamed for multiple cyberattacks

Microsoft is moving to disable RC4, an encryption cipher embedded in Windows authentication for more than two decades. The ...
Threat Post

Microsoft Warns Customers Away From SHA-1 and RC4

The RC4 and SHA-1 algorithms have taken a lot of hits in recent years, with new attacks popping up on a regular basis. Many security experts and cryptographers have been recommending that vendors ...
ZDNet

RC4 NOMORE crypto exploit used to decrypt user cookies in mere hours

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.
Fudzilla

Microsoft to kill off RC4 and SHA-1 algorithms

Microsoft has warned developers to stop using the RC4 and SHA-1 algorithms. The algorithms have been a source of attacks lately and many have suggested phasing them out, now Redmond has wade in ...
Ars Technica

Senator blasts Microsoft for making default Windows vulnerable to “Kerberoasting”

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 ...
Dark Reading

SSL/TLS Suffers 'Bar Mitzvah Attack'

SSL/TLS encryption once again is being haunted by an outdated and weak feature long past its prime: a newly discovered attack exploits a weakness in the older, less secure RC4 encryption algorithm ...