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.

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There’s an old saying in the security community: Attacks always get better. The latest case where that holds true is for the aging RC4 cipher that’s still widely used to encrypt communications on the ...

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.

Google will next week begin a gradual deprecation of unsafe crypto protocol SSLv3 and cipher RC4 in Gmail IMAP/POP clients. Google said that it will initiate on June 16 a gradual deprecation of SSLv3 ...

There’s an old saying in the security community: Attacks always get better. The latest case where that holds true is for the aging RC4 cipher that’s still widely used to encrypt communications on 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 ...

If it seems like there are tons of Googlers and non-Googlers from all corners of the globe working on Chrome and its open-source, upstream Chromium counterpart all the time, that’s because there are.

Microsoft has announced that it will end support for RC4 encryption in its Microsoft Edge and Internet Explorer 11 web browsers next month. On April 12, it will no longer provide support for the RC4 ...

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 ...