Mandiant, the Google-owned cybersecurity firm, has publicly released a comprehensive dataset of Net-NTLMv1 rainbow tables, dramatically highlighting the dangers of relying on outdated Windows ...

Microsoft has kicked off 2026 with another faulty Windows update. This time, it is connection and authentication failures in Azure Virtual Desktop and Windows 365 related to the Windows App. The ...

As organizations face an evolving threat landscape, strengthening Windows authentication is more critical than ever. The deprecation of RC4 (Rivest Cipher 4) encryption in Kerberos is a shift toward ...

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Earlier this week, Microsoft patched a vulnerability that was flagged with the "highest ever" severity rating received by an ASP.NET Core security flaw. This HTTP request smuggling bug (CVE-2025-55315 ...

CVE-2025-55315 is an HTTP request smuggling bug leading to information leaks, file content tampering, and server crashes. Microsoft’s October Patch Tuesday updates addressed a critical-severity ...

A Microsoft employee has admitted Windows 11 24H2 breaks a key internet feature for office and enterprise PCs, and that it likely will never be fixed. A Microsoft employee, Matt Hamrick, has confirmed ...

This week's Windows 11 preview build from the Canary Channel is here with post-quantum cryptography and some useful fixes. Microsoft is rolling out a new Windows 11 preview build in the Canary Channel ...

A fix introduced into Windows last month to close a weakness in Kerberos authentication is causing logon failures for some Windows Hello for Business (WHfB) users, Microsoft has warned. In theory, the ...

If your classic Outlook couldn’t authenticate with the server and is continuously asking for a password, read this post. We will show you how to fix Outlook password authentication issues using the ...

Update VMware Tools for Windows Now: High-Severity Flaw Lets Hackers Bypass Authentication Your email has been sent If you use VMware Tools for Windows, it is ...

Microsoft warns that attackers are deploying malware in ViewState code injection attacks using static ASP. NET machine keys found online. As Microsoft Threat Intelligence experts recently discovered, ...