Uhg, I just thought of something, someone could reenable lanman hashes without you knowing. Just use a boot disk that mounts ntfs (ntfsdos or linux) and then use a registry editor to reenable lanman ...

Many of today’s computer passwords are stored and transmitted in a cryptographic hashed form. A strong password hash algorithm ensures that if the password hash is obtained by unauthorized parties ...

Several readers responded to my previous post on pass-the-hash attacks, asking if Kerberos authentication versus LANManager, NTLM, or NTLMv2 was an effective defense. It’s a good question, one that I ...

Pass-the-hash attacks are among the most difficult assaults to thwart. In these attacks, an intruder — or an employee performing unauthorized activities — gains administrative (or root) access to a ...