{"id":175407,"date":"2016-08-10T10:41:09","date_gmt":"2016-08-10T08:41:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=175407"},"modified":"2016-08-10T10:43:53","modified_gmt":"2016-08-10T08:43:53","slug":"microsoft-removes-rc4-cipher-from-internet-explorer-11-and-edge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/175407-microsoft-removes-rc4-cipher-from-internet-explorer-11-and-edge.html","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft removes RC4 cipher from Internet Explorer 11 and Edge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft has\u00a0disabled support for\u00a0the RC4 cipher in\u00a0Internet Explorer 11 and Edge as part of an update distributed by the company.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.windows.com\/msedgedev\/2016\/08\/09\/rc4-now-deprecated\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Microsoft stated<\/strong><\/a> that\u00a0RC4 was &#8220;now deprecated&#8221; as part of its\u00a0KB3151631 update.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There is consensus across the industry that RC4 is no longer cryptographically secure,&#8221; said Microsoft.<\/p>\n<p>RC4 is a stream cipher that has been widely supported across web browsers and online services, said Microsoft.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Modern attacks have demonstrated that RC4 can be broken within hours or days.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Previously, Microsoft Edge and Internet Explorer 11 allowed RC4 during a fallback from TLS 1.2 or 1.1 to TLS 1.0.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on security<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/175395-windows-10-default-pdf-reader-put-users-at-risk.html\">Windows 10 default PDF reader put users at risk<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadcasting\/175359-netflix-rolling-out-https-streaming.html\">Netflix rolling out HTTPS streaming<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft has disabled support for the RC4 cipher in Internet Explorer 11 and Edge as part of an update distributed by the company.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":125354,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,16],"tags":[36,15725,123,807],"class_list":["post-175407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-security","category-software","tag-active","tag-edge","tag-microsoft","tag-windows"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175407"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175407"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175407\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":175419,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175407\/revisions\/175419"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/125354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}