IT administrators will need to prepare for life without NTLM as Microsoft plans to disable the legacy authentication protocol by default in upcoming Windows releases. This change marks the end of a 33 ...

The New Technology LAN Manager (NTLM) authentication protocol is nearing its end and will no longer be enabled in the next version of Windows Server, Microsoft says. The legacy protocol has been ...

Microsoft announced that it will disable the 30-year-old NTLM authentication protocol by default in upcoming Windows releases due to security vulnerabilities that expose organizations to cyberattacks.

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Microsoft is killing off an obsolete and vulnerable encryption cipher that Windows has supported by default for 26 years following more than a decade of devastating hacks that exploited it and ...

Black Hat Europe 2025: Multiple hacking techniques allow researchers to bypass XML signature validation while still presenting valid SAML documentation to an application. Researchers have uncovered ...

Abstract: This article presents the technical details of the Extensible Authentication Protocol (EAP) and IEEE 802.1x by using WIRE1x, an open-source implementation of IEEE 802.1x client (supplicant) ...

Since August 29th, many users have reported various login problems on Windows 11 and Windows Server 2025, and that includes both Windows 11 24H2 and the newer Windows 11 25H2. According to Microsoft’s ...

SPY Protocol is an open standard for cryptographic authentication between agents and proxies. It uses ECDSA public key cryptography to verify authorized clients without passwords, cookies, or ...

Microsoft has announced that the Microsoft 365 apps for Windows will start blocking access to files via the insecure FPRPC legacy authentication protocol by default starting late August. These changes ...