{"id":6971,"date":"2025-09-17T05:00:03","date_gmt":"2025-09-17T05:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/17\/microsoft-still-uses-rc4-html\/"},"modified":"2025-09-17T05:00:03","modified_gmt":"2025-09-17T05:00:03","slug":"microsoft-still-uses-rc4-html","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/17\/microsoft-still-uses-rc4-html\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft Still Uses RC4"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div>Microsoft Still Uses RC4<\/div>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    <!-- no image --><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Senator Ron Wyden has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wyden.senate.gov\/imo\/media\/doc\/wyden_letter_to_ftc_on_microsoft_kerberoasting_ransomwarepdf.pdf\">asked<\/a> the Federal Trade Commission to <a href=\"https:\/\/cybersecuritynews.com\/microsofts-use-of-outdated-rc4-encryption\/\">investigate<\/a> Microsoft over its continued use of the RC4 encryption algorithm. The letter talks about a hacker technique called <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crowdstrike.com\/en-us\/cybersecurity-101\/cyberattacks\/kerberoasting\/\">Kerberoasting<\/a>, that exploits the Kerberos authentication system.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    Bruce Schneier<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.schneier.com\/blog\/archives\/2025\/09\/microsoft-still-uses-rc4.html\">Go to bruce schneier<\/a><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft Still Uses RC4 Senator Ron Wyden has asked the Federal Trade Commission to investigate Microsoft over its continued use of the RC4 encryption algorithm. The letter talks about a hacker technique called Kerberoasting, that exploits the Kerberos authentication system. Bruce Schneier Go to bruce schneier<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1845,57,158,231,1846,1],"tags":[87],"class_list":["post-6971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-algorithms","category-bruce-schneier","category-microsoft","category-ransomware","category-rc4","category-uncategorized","tag-bruce-schneier"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6971"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6971"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6971\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}