Seven Windows authentication paths bypass MFA protections, enabling credential attacks through AD, NTLM, Kerberos, RDP, SMB, and service accounts.

IT administrators will need to prepare for life without NTLM as Microsoft plans to disable the legacy authentication protocol by default in upcoming Windows releases. This change marks the end of a 33 ...

The New Technology LAN Manager (NTLM) authentication protocol is nearing its end and will no longer be enabled in the next version of Windows Server, Microsoft says. The legacy protocol has been ...

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Black Hat Europe 2025: Multiple hacking techniques allow researchers to bypass XML signature validation while still presenting valid SAML documentation to an application. Researchers have uncovered ...

Algorand (ALGO) introduces Liquid Auth, a decentralized, passwordless authentication protocol for Web3, enhancing user-owned identity and interoperability between Web2 and Web3 platforms. In a ...

Abstract: This article presents the technical details of the Extensible Authentication Protocol (EAP) and IEEE 802.1x by using WIRE1x, an open-source implementation of IEEE 802.1x client (supplicant) ...

SPY Protocol is an open standard for cryptographic authentication between agents and proxies. It uses ECDSA public key cryptography to verify authorized clients without passwords, cookies, or ...

Abstract: Legacy SCADA protocols like DNP3 are vital for smart grid communications but lack robust defenses against modern cyber threats, especially from quantum computing. Current security ...