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 ...

Tor has announced improved encryption and security for the circuit traffic by replacing the old tor1 relay encryption algorithm with a new design called Counter Galois Onion (CGO). One reason behind ...

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 ...

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 ...

US Senator Ron Wyden, D-Ore., on Wednesday sent a letter to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), urging it to investigate Microsoft’s cybersecurity practices and hold it accountable for gross ...

Two years ago, researchers in the Netherlands discovered an intentional backdoor in an encryption algorithm baked into radios used by critical infrastructure–as well as police, intelligence agencies, ...

Palo Alto, California-based SandboxAQ has achieved a significant milestone with the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) having officially selected its Hamming Quasi-Cyclic (HQC) ...

The National Institute of Standards and Technology has selected the HQC algorithm for its ongoing efforts to develop a general encryption to address future cyberthreats from quantum computers. HQC ...