Microsoft confirms a 3-phase strategy to deprecate NTLM, improve auditing, prioritize Kerberos, and disable NTLM by default ...

Microsoft has detailed a three-phased roadmap leading to NTLM being completely disabled in the next version of Windows Server ...

Microsoft is preparing one of the most consequential security shifts in Windows in decades, turning off NTLM authentication ...

While Windows IT professionals deal with security on a daily basis, very few understand the under-the-hood protocol, Kerberos. Kerberos is a security protocol in Windows introduced in Windows 2000 to ...

Microsoft announced that it will disable the 30-year-old NTLM authentication protocol by default in upcoming Windows releases ...

From time to time, Apple puts together brief overviews of various open-source technologies available in their flagship operating system (no, not Newton OS; I said "flagship," not "finest"). The most ...

The Kerberos authentication method originated at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the 1980s, as part of a project called Athena. The project involved integrating the computers on the MIT ...

Proof-of-concept exploit code has been published this week for a new attack technique that can bypass the Kerberos authentication protocol in Windows environments and let intruders access sensitive ...

As the main authentication protocol for Windows enterprise networks, Kerberos has long been a favored hacking playground for security researchers and cybercriminals alike. While the focus has been on ...

Cisco Systems and Palo Alto Networks have fixed similar high-risk authentication bypass vulnerabilities in their network security devices that were caused by an oversight in the implementation of the ...