Windows administrators face a hard, irreversible deadline in three days: when July 14's cumulative update installs, Microsoft permanently removes the registry key that allowed domain controllers to ...

Email encryption masks the contents of messages to protect it from unauthorized access, ensuring only intended recipients can read sensitive information. There are different types of email encryption ...

📌 Note: Legacy v1.0 files are archived in the archive/ folder for reference. For migration from standalone scripts to the module, see Migrating from v2.x. A PowerShell module for assessing DES and ...

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 ...

To tackle that, Microsoft has started rolling out protections designed to prevent information disclosure attacks that could expose Kerberos service tickets using weak or legacy encryption, including ...

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 ...

About time: Microsoft introduced support for the RC4 stream cipher in Windows 2000 as the default authentication algorithm for the Active Directory services. The system has been insecure for even ...

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 ...

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 ...