The various versions of Windows have used Kerberos as its main authentication protocol for over 20 years. However, in certain circumstances, the OS has to use another method, NTLM (NT LAN Manager).

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, ...

Google provides assistance in cracking NTLM hashes, provoking Microsoft and also admins who are concerned about the security ...

Microsoft warns of credential-stealing NTLM relay attacks against Windows domain controllers Your email has been sent Microsoft is sounding an alert about a threat against Windows domain controllers ...

Back in October of 2023, Microsoft expressed its desire to disable NTLM (New Technology LAN Manager) authentication. With the reduction in usage of the NTLM protocol, the company eventually wanted to ...

Microsoft has released fresh guidance to organizations on how to mitigate NTLM relay attacks by default, days after researchers reported finding a NTLM hash disclosure zero-day in all versions of ...

Microsoft's July 2017 Patch Tuesday includes a fix for an issue with the NT LAN Manager (NTLM) Authentication Protocol that can be exploited to allow attackers to create admin accounts on a local ...

I have a couple Intranet "applications" that use NTLM authentication to grab the user's login name, and then use that to retrieve their info from a database (everyone's on NT and IE). I've done this ...

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 ...

If you are serious about computer/network security, then you must have a solid understanding of authentication methods. Debra Littlejohn Shinder takes a moment to lay out the role authentication plays ...