The MIT Kerberos Consortium has added Microsoft to its ranks of formal industry supporters. The company joined the group Monday as a founding sponsor, gaining a seat on the executive board, which also ...

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 ...

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 ...

Yaron Kassner, CTO at Silverfort, discusses authentication-bypass bugs in Cisco ASA, F5 Big-IP, IBM QRadar and Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS. Authentication is the front gate to security systems, so if ...

There was a time when attacks against identity and authentication infrastructure were the domain of well-financed and, likely, state-backed threat actors. These groups crave persistence on critical ...

Do you think Microsoft’s Kerberos implementation follows the Kerberos standard? Add your comments and questions to the online Kerberos discussion. In Greek mythology , Kerberos is the three-headed ...

Microsoft has joined the MIT Kerberos Consortium, an organization that develops the widely used network authentication standard. It joins Apple, Google, and Sun on the consortium’s executive board.