The Kerberos authentication method originated at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the 1980s, as part of a project called Athena. The project involved integrating the computers on the MIT ...

While Windows IT professionals deal with security on a daily basis, very few understand the under-the-hood protocol, Kerberos. Kerberos is a security protocol in Windows introduced in Windows 2000 to ...

Several readers responded to my previous post on pass-the-hash attacks, asking if Kerberos authentication versus LANManager, NTLM, or NTLMv2 was an effective defense. It’s a good question, one that I ...

From time to time, Apple puts together brief overviews of various open-source technologies available in their flagship operating system (no, not Newton OS; I said "flagship," not "finest"). The most ...

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

As the main authentication protocol for Windows enterprise networks, Kerberos has long been a favored hacking playground for security researchers and cybercriminals alike. While the focus has been on ...

Cisco Systems and Palo Alto Networks have fixed similar high-risk authentication bypass vulnerabilities in their network security devices that were caused by an oversight in the implementation of the ...

Proof-of-concept exploit code has been published this week for a new attack technique that can bypass the Kerberos authentication protocol in Windows environments and let intruders access sensitive ...

Server: Fully-patched 2008 R2, running Certificate Services. The /certsrv virtual directory is using (I believe) default settings. Specifically, this means it's using Windows Authentication, with NTLM ...

Vincent Danen takes you through the steps to set up Kerberos authentication on NFSv4 for more secure remote access to the server. In past tips we’ve looked at using Kerberos and how to authenticate ...

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, ...