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 this week indicated that it plans to eliminate the need to use the New Technology LAN Manager (NTLM) protocol in Windows 11, with Kerberos taking its place. NTLM use has long been a ...

Seven Windows authentication paths bypass MFA protections, enabling credential attacks through AD, NTLM, Kerberos, RDP, SMB, and service accounts.

Microsoft releases mitigations for a Windows NT LAN Manager exploit that forces remote Windows systems to reveal password hashes that can be easily cracked. Microsoft was quick to respond with a fix ...

Microsoft’s widely used software for brokering network access has a critical design flaw, an Israeli security firm said, but Microsoft contends the issue has been long-known and defenses are in place.

A privilege escalation vulnerability impacting all Windows versions that can let threat actors gain domain admin privileges through an NTLM relay attack has received unofficial patches after Microsoft ...

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 ...

Microsoft’s widely used software for brokering network access has a critical design flaw, an Israeli security firm said, but Microsoft contends the issue has been long-known and defenses are in place.