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 said last year that it wants to improve authentication security by eventually killing off NTLM sometime in the future. Today, the company has announced the deprecation of the feature. Back ...

Microsoft has detailed a three-phased roadmap leading to NTLM being completely disabled in the next version of Windows Server ...

A new zero-day vulnerability in NTLM discovered by researchers at 0patch allows attackers to steal NTLM credentials by having a user view a specially crafted malicious file in Windows Explorer — no ...

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.