Microsoft is killing off an obsolete and vulnerable encryption cipher that Windows has supported by default for 26 years ...

Microsoft recently confirmed that it is finally deprecating RC4, the encryption method used by the Kerberos authentication protocol for the past three decades. Developed by mathematician ...

Quantum computing represents a major threat to encryption, and the inflection point may be less than five years away.

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Microsoft is finally ripping out one of the weakest links in its identity stack, cutting off a legacy cipher that attackers ...

"One of the weapons originating from the Two Fingers. A formless sequence of ciphers comprise its blade, and as such no shield can repel it. Deals holy damage. The furtive inscription appears to hang ...

Khadija Khartit is a strategy, investment, and funding expert, and an educator of fintech and strategic finance in top universities. She has been an investor, entrepreneur, and advisor for more than ...

When the IBM PC was new, I served as the president of the San Francisco PC User Group for three years. That’s how I met PCMag’s editorial team, who brought me on board in 1986. In the years since that ...

Scientists have now sequenced more than two million bacterial and archaeal genomes, outstripping the ability to perform gold-standard searches for genes. LexicMap is a new tool that can scan millions ...

Toby Walters is a financial writer, investor, and lifelong learner. He has a passion for analyzing economic and financial data and sharing it with others. Credit card encryption helps prevent theft of ...

Chiara Cavaglieri, Which? banking expert, says: I’ve never felt unsafe using online banking or mobile banking apps, despite many years spent researching threats. Headlines about criminals using AI to ...