Microsoft announced that it will disable the 30-year-old NTLM authentication protocol by default in upcoming Windows releases ...

Finally, with Windows Server 2025 and Windows 11 24H2, Microsoft is taking a definitive step to eliminate an historical security weakness: NTLM v1 is being completely removed! It was already disabled ...

Google’s Mandiant security division has come up with an unusual tactic to persuade organizations to stop using the aged and ...

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

Security firm Mandiant has released a database that allows any administrative password protected by Microsoft’s NTLM.v1 hash algorithm to be hacked in an attempt to nudge users who continue using the ...

The Hash Ribbon metric, which monitors bitcoin BTC $89,100.44 miner activity as a signal for BTC price trends, just indicated rising miner stress, a sign that unprofitable producers are being forced ...

NT LAN Manager (NTLM) is an authentication protocol by Microsoft for Windows accounts and services. Due to security weaknesses, it has been largely replaced by Kerberos, but it’s still available for ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Zak Doffman writes about security, surveillance and privacy. Microsoft confirms that starting Oct. 14, “File Explorer ...

If you’ve been using the internet for more than a month or so, you know that downloading files from unknown sites is a great way to get compromised. But the latest security update to Windows does a ...

In files downloaded from the internet, HTML tags referencing external paths could be used to leak NTLM hashes during file previews. Microsoft this week announced that the preview feature is now ...

Following the October 2025 Patch Tuesday updates, many Windows users began reporting a frustrating issue: the File Explorer preview pane suddenly stopped working for many common file types. In a move ...