Mike Mimoso and Chris Brook discuss the news of the week, including the latest on ShadowBrokers and Cisco, the Sweet32 collision attack, decryptors for the Wildfire ransomware, and this week’s gaming forum breaches. Download: Threatpost_News_Wrap_August_26_2016.mp3 Music by Chris Gonsalves

Google said that it will initiate on June 16 a gradual deprecation of SSLv3 and RC4 for Gmail IMAP/POP mail clients. Both the crypto protocols cipher are notoriously unsafe and are being phased out in big chunks of the Internet. Google, for its part, had already announced in May that it would no longer support...

Google clarified this week exactly when it plans to disable support for the RC4 stream cipher and the SSLv3 protocol on the company’s SMTP servers and Gmail’s web servers. It turns out the end will come sooner than later; the company announced it will begin to disable both a month from now, on June 16....