BitLocker encrypts your hard drive and requires a key to decrypt it. Microsoft may give your key to law enforcement upon a valid request. Don't save your key to the cloud; instead, store it locally or ...

To tackle that, Microsoft has started rolling out protections designed to prevent information disclosure attacks that could expose Kerberos service tickets using weak or legacy encryption, including ...

We all keep secrets. Whether you are trying to protect messages to loved ones, company accounts or vital state intelligence, the technology that allows you peace of mind in our increasingly online ...

An Oregon senator is calling for the Federal Trade Commission to investigate Microsoft in light of a 2024 breach at healthcare company Ascension, in which cybercriminals used the technique known as ...

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 ...

Very true. There was some 3rd party app that I needed to implement last year that 100%, absolutely required RC4, which I had disabled on my DCs years ago. That application vendor hemmed and hawed ...

Gianluca Di Bella claimed quantum computing already makes encryption and ZK-proofs vulnerable due to “harvest now, decrypt later” risks. Gianluca Di Bella, a smart-contract researcher specializing in ...

The 2024 FinWise data breach serves as a stark example of the growing insider threats faced by modern financial institutions. Unlike typical cyberattacks originating from external hackers, this ...

RC4’s long, messy reign over Windows authentication At the center of this shift is RC4, short for Rivest Cipher 4, a stream cipher that once powered much of the internet’s “secure” traffic and is now ...