Microsoft is preparing one of the most consequential security shifts in Windows in decades, turning off NTLM authentication ...

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

Microsoft confirms a 3-phase strategy to deprecate NTLM, improve auditing, prioritize Kerberos, and disable NTLM by default ...

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 ...

Microsoft is beginning a phased process to disable NTLM, the decades-old, weak authentication protocol, by default in future ...

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

Microsoft has confirmed that Windows updates released since August 29, 2025, are breaking authentication on systems sharing Security Identifiers. Windows uses unique alphanumeric strings known as ...

All modern Windows PCs come with Microsoft Defender built in. For the unaware, this tool is Windows’ native antivirus. Over time, it has matured into a reliable security tool capable of blocking a ...

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There are two popular definitions of the word oblivion: the state of being disregarded or forgotten and the state of being unaware or unconscious of what is happening. Both apply to the coming Windows ...

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