Microsoft has warned developers to stop using the RC4 and SHA-1 algorithms. The algorithms have been a source of attacks lately and many have suggested phasing them out, now Redmond has wade in ...

According to a research team from Royal Holloway University London (RHUL) and the University of Illinois at Chicago, when RC4 encryption (long known to be weak) is used as part of TLS/SSL (that is, ...

Microsoft issued advisories informing users they can now disable RC4 in .NET, in addition to additional credential protection for Windows and that it had revoked digital signatures for four UEFI ...