A 15-year-old vulnerability in technology used to authenticate users on Windows and Unix networks continues to put the organizations that rely on it at risk, a security researcher said on Thursday.
Short for NT LAN Manager, NTLM and its offspring, NTLMv2, is a challenge-and-response protocol for logging onto Microsoft accounts over Windows or Unix networks. While it encrypts credentials to prevent them from being captured, it still leaves much to be desired from a security perspective, says Marsh Ray, a researcher who was scheduled to speak about the weakness on Thursday at the Usenix Security Symposium in Washington, DC.“The deeper problem is that NTLMv1-2 provide absolutely no protection against credentials forwarding/relay or reflection attacks,” Ray, who is a software developer at two-factor authentication service PhoneFactor, wrote in an email sent to journalists. “This means that an active attacker (such as a man-in-the-middle) is sometimes able to redirect the login of the legitimate user to authenticate his own session.
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