Microsoft is preparing one of the most consequential security shifts in Windows in decades, turning off NTLM authentication by default and pushing organizations toward modern, Kerberos based sign in.

Future Windows updates will disable NTLM authentication, bolstering security and protecting users against legacy protocol vulnerabilities.

Microsoft has announced plans to disable the 33-year-old NTLM authentication protocol by default in future Windows releases due to security vulnerabilities.

For nearly 30 years, security experts have warned organizations to ditch the weak NTLM authentication protocol in Windows. But its use persists, even amidst easy ...

Multiple attackers are actively exploiting a recently patched Windows vulnerability that exposes authentication credentials, despite Microsoft releasing a fix for it in March. CVE-2025-24054 is an ...

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 ...

The path to eradicating this ancient protocol and security sinkhole won’t be easy, but the time has come for its complete eradication. Microsoft has hinted at a possible end to NTLM a few times, but ...