An ancient network authentication protocol has received its first death notice. The protocol, which has roots going back to the first local area network days of the 1980s, is called Microsoft NTLM, ...

Microsoft has officially deprecated NTLM authentication on Windows and Windows servers, stating that developers should transition to Kerberos or Negotiation authentication to prevent problems in the ...

Microsoft recently announced its plans to disable the legacy New Technology LAN Manager (NTLM) protocol by default in upcoming Windows releases. The software giant disclosed that the move is designed ...

Microsoft has announced it is taking steps to eventually disable NTLM (NT LAN Manager) for authentication features in Windows 11 and add new features to Kerberos to take its place. The various ...

Microsoft added a new security feature to Windows 11 that lets admins block NTLM over SMB to prevent pass-the-hash, NTLM relay, or password-cracking attacks. This will modify the legacy approach where ...

Microsoft Improves Windows Security with a Path to Move Off NTLM Your email has been sent It’s time to stop relying on the insecure authentication protocol built into Windows. Microsoft is making it ...

The path to eradicating this ancient protocol and security sinkhole won’t be easy, but the time has come for its complete eradication. Microsoft has hinted at a possible end to NTLM a few times, but ...

Each domain is its own forest root. An IIS server in DomainC needs to mount a a folder from a server in DomainB as a virtual directory for a website. This requires a forest trust. For PCI-DSS ...

An initial access broker is able to grab authentication information when a victim opens the email attachments for access to Windows networks. A threat group that acts as an initial access broker is ...