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fromThe Hacker News
2 weeks agoMicrosoft Begins NTLM Phase-Out With Three-Stage Plan to Move Windows to Kerberos
Microsoft has announced a three-phase approach to phase out New Technology LAN Manager (NTLM) as part of its efforts to shift Windows environments toward stronger, Kerberos-based options. The development comes more than two years after the tech giant revealed its plans to deprecate the legacy technology, citing its susceptibility to weaknesses that could facilitate relay attacks and allow bad actors to gain unauthorized access to network resources.
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fromComputerworld
1 month agoHow to manually update Microsoft Defender
Microsoft Defender is the built-in anti-malware package that's included with modern Windows operating systems. It's alternatively known as Windows Security (it shows up under Settings > Privacy & security as Windows Security), Windows Defender, or Microsoft Defender Antivirus, as on this Microsoft Learn page. But whatever you want to call it, for many Windows users, this tool is the go-to default for handling security on their PCs.
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fromThe Hacker News
2 months agoMicrosoft Issues Security Fixes for 56 Flaws, Including Active Exploit and Two Zero-Days
Microsoft released patches for 56 Windows security flaws at the end of 2025, including an actively exploited use-after-free in the Cloud Files Mini Filter Driver.
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fromZDNET
7 months agoMicrosoft rolls out Windows security changes to prevent another CrowdStrike meltdown
Microsoft is implementing significant changes to Windows endpoint security to prevent disasters like the CrowdStrike meltdown.
New Windows capabilities allow security solutions to run outside the Windows kernel for improved reliability.
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