Microsoft is expanding its passwordless security strategy by introducing passkey support for Microsoft Entra on Windows devices. The feature enables phishing-resistant authentication using Windows ...

Organizations typically roll out multi-factor authentication (MFA) and assume stolen passwords are no longer enough to access systems. In Windows environments, that assumption is often wrong.

Authentication sits at the heart of enterprise security, making passwords and the authentication mechanisms that use them, prime targets for cybercriminals. For more than 90% of organizations that use ...

NTLM has been a part of Windows authentication for more than three decades. It consists of security protocols originally designed to provide authentication, integrity, and confidentiality to users.

For the past few years, Microsoft has been talking about how it is slowly, but surely, phasing out NTLM in Windows installations in favor of Kerberos-based alternatives. Although some versions of the ...

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.

Microsoft released KB5077793 to fix Azure Virtual Desktop and Windows 365 authentication failures. January 2026 security update KB5073379 caused credential prompt failures across multiple Windows ...

Mandiant, the Google-owned cybersecurity firm, has publicly released a comprehensive dataset of Net-NTLMv1 rainbow tables, dramatically highlighting the dangers of relying on outdated Windows ...