Microsoft is beginning a phased process to disable NTLM, the decades-old, weak authentication protocol, by default in future ...

Microsoft announced that it will disable the 30-year-old NTLM authentication protocol by default in upcoming Windows releases due to security vulnerabilities that expose organizations to cyberattacks.

February 2026 Patch Tuesday restricts Windows credential autofill to fix a Windows Hello input injection flaw (CVE-2026-20804).

Finally, with Windows Server 2025 and Windows 11 24H2, Microsoft is taking a definitive step to eliminate an historical security weakness: NTLM v1 is being completely removed! It was already disabled ...

Microsoft confirms a 3-phase strategy to deprecate NTLM, improve auditing, prioritize Kerberos, and disable NTLM by default ...

Microsoft is preparing one of the most consequential security shifts in Windows in decades, turning off NTLM authentication ...

A group of researchers have proven that Microsoft's Windows Hello fingerprint authentication isn't as strong as the company might have thought. This isn't the first time that we've seen Windows ...

Microsoft intends to disable the insecure NTLM protocol by default with the next Windows Server version. However, its release ...

Microsoft will disable NTLM support in upcoming Windows releases and enhance Kerberos and Windows authentication to reduce ...

Future Windows updates will disable NTLM authentication, bolstering security and protecting users against legacy protocol vulnerabilities.