realcaseyrollins@narwhal.city to Technology@lemmy.today · 23 days agoMicrosoft will finally kill obsolete cipher that has wreaked decades of havocarstechnica.comexternal-linkmessage-square0linkfedilinkarrow-up15arrow-down10file-textcross-posted to: hackernews@lemmy.bestiver.setechnology@piefed.socialcybersecurity@sh.itjust.workspulse_of_truth@infosec.pub
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The weak RC4 for administrative authentication has been a hacker holy grail for decades. https://arstechnica.com/security/2025/12/microsoft-will-finally-kill-obsolete-cipher-that-has-wreaked-decades-of-havoc/
