Author: Carl Leonard

Following a demonstration of an attack from Mathy Vanhoef and Frank Piessens of the University of Leuven, that showed a weakness in the RC4 algorithm, Carl Leonard, Principal Security Analyst, Raytheon | Websense, commented on the decrypting cookies in just 52 hours. Carl Leonard, Principal Security Analyst, Raytheon | Websense : “When fundamental weaknesses like that discovered in the RC4 algorithm are made public, businesses need to sit up, listen and take effective action. RC4, designed almost 30 years ago, has been shown to be vulnerable to attack, exposing businesses to real threats which could potentially expose intellectual property and…