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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Nathan Eddy works as an independent filmmaker and journalist based in Berlin, specializing in architecture, business technology and healthcare IT. He is a graduate of Northwestern University’s Medill ...

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 ...

Microsoft eased enterprise security teams into 2024 with a relatively light January security update consisting of patches for 48 unique CVEs, just two of which the company identified as being of ...

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 ...

Cybercrime accelerates while software vulnerabilities dip, researchers find, 09/17/07: The number of software vulnerabilities recorded in the first half of this year declined, while the use of ...