Microsoft pulled the plug on Windows Phone all the way back in 2017, a move that CEO Satya Nadella came to regret years later. Even though some enthusiasts are trying to keep their aging Windows Phone ...

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.

Abstract: This article proposes a lightweight two-way authentication scheme, PUF-ILM, that integrates Physical Unclonable Function (PUF) and Improved Logistic Map (ILM). The PUF generates unique ...

Microsoft released KB5077793 to fix Azure Virtual Desktop and Windows 365 authentication failures. January 2026 security update KB5073379 caused credential prompt failures across multiple Windows ...

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released a comprehensive dataset of Net-NTLMv1 rainbow tables, dramatically highlighting the dangers of relying on outdated Windows ...

Khamosh Pathak is a freelance tech journalist with over 13 years of experience writing online. An accounting graduate, he turned his interest in writing and technology into a career. He holds a ...

Abstract: Consumer electronics (CE) in Internet of Things (IoT)-based smart home applications are rapidly growing and used as a daily life part. Authentication has been utilized for decades to secure ...

Microsoft is killing off an obsolete and vulnerable encryption cipher that Windows has supported by default for 26 years following more than a decade of devastating hacks that exploited it and ...

Let's go back in time to an era of personal computing, where dial-up internet was cutting-edge and desktop monitors were enormous. Specifically, let's jump to April 6, 1992, the day Microsoft released ...

When it comes to digital safety, setting up an extra layer of security for accounts is heavily recommended. The idea behind this approach, known as multi-factor authentication (MFA), is to ensure that ...