Nearly every major product family needs immediate patching, from Windows to Office to Microsoft Edge, SQL Server, and even Microsoft Developer Tools.

With the increasing reliance on cloud storage for sensitive data, file encryption has become a necessity. It is a way to protect files by converting them into unreadable formats for unauthorized ...

Introduction Xloader is an information stealing malware family that evolved from Formbook and targets web browsers, email clients, and File Transfer Protocol (FTP) applications. Additionally, Xloader ...

Abstract: RC4 is the most widely used stream cipher around. A lot of modifications of RC4 cipher can be seen in open literature. Most of them enhance the secrecy of the cipher and the security levels ...

The Linux kernel development cycle continues with the release of Linux 6.19-rc4, the fourth release candidate in the lead-up to the final 6.19 stable kernel. As with previous RC builds, this release ...

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 ...

Cryptography secures communication in banking, messaging, and blockchain. Good algorithms (AES, RSA, ECC, SHA-2/3, ChaCha20) are secure, efficient, and widely trusted. Bad algorithms (DES, MD5, SHA-1, ...

Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., is urging the Federal Trade Commission to investigate Microsoft for what he says is a threat to national security due to its de facto monopoly on the software industry. At ...

US Senator Ron Wyden of Oregon has called on the Federal Trade Commission to investigate Microsoft for cybersecurity lapses linked to ransomware attacks on critical US infrastructure. This includes ...

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 ...