A consensus algorithm is the rule a distributed network follows to agree on which new block is added to a blockchain, so every honest node ends up with the same ledger without trusting any single ...

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 ...

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 ...

Microsoft is killing off an obsolete and vulnerable encryption cipher that Windows has supported by default for 26 years following more than a decade of devastating hacks that exploited it and ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. If you want to solve a tricky problem, it often helps to get organized. You might, for example, break the problem into pieces and tackle ...

U.S. Senator Ron Wyden has sent a letter to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) requesting the agency to investigate Microsoft for failing to provide adequate security in its products, which led to ...

A fresh firestorm has erupted over Microsoft’s handling of cybersecurity risks, with U.S. Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR) calling on the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to investigate the company for what he ...

Fischer unveils revolutionary RC4 Noize ski collection for this coming season Born from the demands of the world’s most challenging race courses, Fischer’s new RC4 Noize ski collection is the result ...

Last year, fashion publications wrote extensively about the impact of the algorithm on personal style. (Vogue Business included.) In last year’s fashion conversation, ‘the algorithm’ surpassed its ...

Adam Satariano and Roser Toll Pifarre interviewed more than 50 victims, families, police, government officials and other experts about Spain’s gender violence program. In a small apartment outside ...

Algorithms have taken on an almost mythical significance in the modern world. They determine what you see on social media and when browsing online, help form people’s belief systems, and impact the ...