A San Francisco company paid nearly $1 million for the solution to an unsolved code in Kryptos, a sculpture on the C.I.A.

I'd like to thank my co-author, Martin Zugec, for his valuable contributions to this report. This intrusion adds three dimensions to the public understanding of Chinese APT activity in contested ...

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 ...

Added Ascon-128. Ascon offers authenticated encryption with associated data (AEAD), hash, XOF, MAC and PRF. Ascon has won the NIST Lightweight Cryptography competition (2023) and the CAESAR ...

Over the history of Active Directory, threat actors have continually identified new ways of exposing vulnerabilities in the Kerberos authentication protocol. To help reduce the risks associated with ...

Microsoft is continuing its push to modernize Windows security, and this time the focus is on strengthening Kerberos authentication across the platform. The company is preparing a major Kerberos ...

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Each release of Windows Server brings new features and improvements. Sometimes older features are removed to make room for better alternatives. There is a Microsoft’s article that details the features ...

Although RC4 encryption should already be a thing of the past, it is still used sporadically today. Microsoft has now announced that it will remove Rivest Cipher 4 from Kerberos. This is intended to ...

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 ...