A few months ago, we learned that Microsoft is significantly improving Server Message Block (SMB) authentication in Windows 11. At that time, the company enabled SMB authentication rate limiter by ...

Tenable Research discovered an SMB force-authentication vulnerability in Open Policy Agent (OPA) that is now fixed in the latest release of OPA. The vulnerability could have allowed an attacker to ...

Microsoft continually makes enhancements to Windows and while general users judge these efforts based on what they can actually see and use, the company makes a lot of changes on the backend that ...

Microsoft has introduced a new default to shield Windows 11 machines against password attacks which ought to make them "a very unattractive target" for hackers trying to steal credentials. The latest ...

This library converts passwords into the LAN Manager (LM) and NT Hashes used by SMB/CIFS servers. It was written to populate the sambaLMPassword and sambaNTPassword values in an LDAP directory for use ...

VeriSign has embedded optional two-factor authentication technology into Cisco’s new Small Business Pro SA 500 Series security appliances, which are aimed at small ...