Two vulnerabilities have been uncovered in Microsoft Windows security protocols which could lead to password cracking and domain compromise, researchers have warned. This week, the Preempt security ...

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While using a VPN you may have noticed the option to select a VPN protocol. You know, those weird, seemingly random IT-sounding names that sometimes resemble alphabet soup: OpenVPN, WireGuard, IKEv2, ...

There is a protocol in Windows that has been around since the days of Windows XP, which has been found to be insecure. Tavis Ormandy, a security researcher with Google's Project Zero security team, ...

Nothing like waiting until the eleventh hour. But on January 30, Google announced it will extend the deadline as to when it would cut off Microsoft users' access to Google Sync (built on Microsoft's ...

Microsoft's Edge browser responds to a range of built-in protocols that attackers can abuse to bypass security restrictions, to access files and run local apps remotely without user interaction. Edge ...

Another day, another global malware attack made possible by a Microsoft security hole. Once again, attackers used hacking tools developed by the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA), which were stolen ...

The network protocol that supports requests between machines. The file sharing protocol provides the commands for opening, reading, writing and closing files across the network and may also provide ...

Open-source proponents say they’ve reached a legal agreement with Microsoft under which the software giant is making available protocol documentation needed to fully interoperate with the Microsoft ...

I've used the Nartac Software IIS Crypto tool* to set the Windows SSL cipher suite order, secure protocols, ciphers, hashes, and key exchanges on newly set up Windows servers running modern ...