A bypass bug present in the Kerberos cryptographic authentication protocol for 21 years has now been fixed in patches from Microsoft, Samba, Fedora, FreeBSD, and Debian. The discoverers of the ancient ...

Two implementations of the Kerberos authentication protocol received patches this week against a vulnerability that allowed a threat actor to bypass authentication procedures. The vulnerability was ...

Proof-of-concept exploit code has been published this week for a new attack technique that can bypass the Kerberos authentication protocol in Windows environments and let intruders access sensitive ...

The Kerberos authentication method originated at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the 1980s, as part of a project called Athena. The project involved integrating the computers on the MIT ...

Microsoft has released an unscheduled update to patch a critical security hole that is being actively exploited to hack Windows-based servers. A flaw in the Windows implementation of the Kerberos ...

A bug in the implementations of a cryptographic protocol left popular operating systems vulnerable to authentication bypass for 21 years, researchers have discovered. The protocol, Kerberos, is used ...

Microsoft has officially deprecated NTLM authentication on Windows and Windows servers, stating that developers should transition to Kerberos or Negotiation authentication to prevent problems in the ...

Do you think Microsoft’s Kerberos implementation follows the Kerberos standard? Add your comments and questions to the online Kerberos discussion. In Greek mythology , Kerberos is the three-headed ...