Robust passwords remain the cornerstone of online security, even as malicious actors sharpen their attacks. Consider the threat from AS-REP roasting – and the defenses organizations must deploy to ...

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 has fixed a known issue causing authentication problems when Credential Guard is enabled on systems using the Kerberos PKINIT pre-auth security protocol. According to Redmond, these ...

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 ...

If you haven’t already, now is the time to reset your Kerberos password — take proactive action to ensure that you are one step ahead and prepared nearly a year in advance of future hardening. Do you ...

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 ...