Windows Networks: Google Mandiant Delivers the Coup de Grâce to Microsoft's NTLM

Google provides assistance in cracking NTLM hashes, provoking Microsoft and also admins who are concerned about the security ...

Microsoft to disable NTLM by default in future Windows releases

Microsoft announced that it will disable the 30-year-old NTLM authentication protocol by default in upcoming Windows releases ...

Mandiant releases rainbow table that cracks weak admin password in 12 hours

Security firm Mandiant has released a database that allows any administrative password protected by Microsoft’s NTLM.v1 hash algorithm to be hacked in an attempt to nudge users who continue using the ...
Homeland Security Today

Use an 8-Char Windows NTLM Password? Don’t. Every Single One Can Be Cracked in Under 2.5 Hours

HashCat, an open source password recovery tool, can now crack an eight-character Windows NTLM password hash in less time than it will take to watch Avengers: Endgame. In 2011 security researcher ...

Mandiant pushes organizations to dump insecure NTLMv1 by releasing a way to crack it

Google’s Mandiant security division has come up with an unusual tactic to persuade organizations to stop using the aged and ...
Infosecurity-magazine.com

TA577 Exploits NTLM Authentication Vulnerability

Cybersecurity researchers at Proofpoint have uncovered a new tactic employed by cybercriminal threat actor TA577, shedding light on a lesser-seen objective in their operations. The group was found ...
Dark Reading

OPA for Windows Vulnerability Exposes NTLM Hashes

Organizations using Open Policy Agent (OPA) for Windows should consider updating to v0.68.0 or later to protect against an authentication hash leakage vulnerability identified in all earlier versions ...