Microsoft has announced plans to disable the 33-year-old NTLM authentication protocol by default in future Windows releases ...

Microsoft's February 2026 update delivers an expanded Cross Device Resume, improved voice tools, and QOL fixes.

Microsoft confirms a 3-phase strategy to deprecate NTLM, improve auditing, prioritize Kerberos, and disable NTLM by default ...

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Overview On January 14, NSFOCUS CERT detected that Microsoft released the January Security Update patch, which fixed 112 security issues involving widely used products such as Windows, Microsoft ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Davey Winder is a veteran cybersecurity writer, hacker and analyst. Updated November 14 with details of further Microsoft Windows ...

You can disable it using the following methods, but you must use an admin account. Disable WPAD by disabling WINS/NetBT name resolution Stop WPAD using a host file entry Group Policy Editor Registry ...

Can you chip in? This year we’ve reached an extraordinary milestone: 1 trillion web pages preserved on the Wayback Machine. This makes us the largest public repository of internet history ever ...

Microsoft’s October Patch Tuesday releases will fix 167 vulnerabilities, the highest number this year, including seven rated as critical that need immediate attention from CISOs. Separately, SAP ...

Dozens of Windows servers have been hijacked by a Chinese hacking group to boost Google’s rankings for shady gambling websites, experts have found. Security researchers ESET have outlined the work ...