Windows Networks: Google Mandiant Delivers the Coup de Grâce to Microsoft's NTLM

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

Microsoft wants to eventually disable NTLM authentication in Windows 11Microsoft wants to eventually disable NTLM authentication in Windows 11Microsoft wants to eventually ...

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).

Mandiant Exposes Major Flaw In Outdated Windows Authentication

Mandiant, the Google-owned cybersecurity firm, has publicly released a comprehensive dataset of Net-NTLMv1 rainbow tables, dramatically highlighting the ...
Redmond Magazine

Microsoft Declares Death to NTLM with Coming Windows 11 Features

Microsoft this week indicated that it plans to eliminate the need to use the New Technology LAN Manager (NTLM) protocol in Windows 11, with Kerberos taking its place. NTLM use has long been a ...
SiliconANGLE

It’s time to put an end to the NTLM network authentication protocol

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, ...