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 ...

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 ...

Account administration in a distributed UNIX/Linux environment can become complicated and messy if done by hand. Large sites use special tools to deal with this problem. In this article, I describe ...

The Kerberos authentication protocol is the default authentication protocol of Windows Server 2003. This section examines how the protocol works by breaking down the complexity of the protocol into ...

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 ...

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

Microsoft is investigating a new known issue causing enterprise domain controllers to experience Kerberos authentication problems after installing security updates released to address CVE-2020-17049 ...

Microsoft has issued out-of-band (OOB) updates to address authentication failures on domain controllers that run all currently supported editions of Windows Server. According to the security advisory, ...

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.