Microsoft has announced that it plans to eliminate NT LAN Manager (NTLM) in Windows 11 in the future, as it pivots to alternative methods for authentication and bolster security. “The focus is on strengthening the Kerberos authentication protocol, which has been the default since 2000, and reducing reliance on NT LAN Manager (NTLM),” the tech […]
Microsoft fixed three zero-days under actively exploitation in its patch dump for the month of October. The computing giant addressed a zero-day vulnerability tracked as CVE-2023-36563, a disclosure flaw in WordPad that can be exploited to obtain hashed passwords. WordPad is a no-frills word processing program bundled into the Windows operating system – although Microsoft […]
Technology giant Microsoft and multinational banking firm American Express are the most spoofed companies in phishing emails targeting financial services. That’s according to the 2023 Financial Services Sector Threat Landscape report by Trustwave SpiderLabs, which examines a multitude of threats faced by the financial services industry. The report cited phishing and email-borne malware as the […]
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