Windows 11 to Deprecate NTLM, Add AI-Powered App Controls and Security Defenses

Microsoft on Monday confirmed its plans to deprecate NT LAN Manager NTLM in Windows 11 in the second half of the year, as it announced a slew of new security measures to harden the widely-used desktop operating system. "Deprecating NTLM has been a huge ask from our security community as it will...

Windows LSA Protection Status

The LSA Protection validates users for local and remote sign-ins and enforces local security policies to prevent reading memory and code injection by non-protected processes. This provides added security for the credentials that the LSA stores and manages. This protects against Pass-the-Hash or...

PPLdump - Dump The Memory Of A PPL With A Userland Exploit

This tool implements a userland exploit that was initially discussed by James Forshaw a.k.a. @tiraniddo - in this blog post - for dumping the memory of any PPL as an administrator. I wrote two blog posts about this tool. The first part is about Protected Processes concepts while the second one...

Microsoft Windows: LSA Protection

This test checks the setting for policy Copyright C 2018 Greenbone Networks GmbH SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either...