Data Breach Today

SEPTEMBER 6, 2019

The Industry's 1st Active Directory Plugin That Helps Organizations Prevent Use of Compromised Passwords According to NIST 800-63b Guidelines With widespread use of Active Directory across industries and organizations of all sizes, it is frequently a target for bad actors who can use a cracking dictionary or exposed credentials to gain unauthorized (..)

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Microsoft warns of a couple of Active Directory flaws fixed with the November 2021 Patch Tuesday updates that could allow takeover of Windows domains. The flaws, tracked as CVE-2021-42287 and CVE-2021-42278, can be chained to impersonate domain controllers and gain administrative privileges on Active Directory. Pierluigi Paganini.

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IG Guru

AUGUST 11, 2023

The post Microsoft renames Azure Active Directory first appeared on IG GURU. Check out the article from Microsoft here.

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Dark Reading

JULY 12, 2021

Microsoft Active Directory, ubiquitous across enterprises, has long been a primary target for attackers seeking network access and sensitive data.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 19, 2022

Threat actors are using the Bumblebee loader to compromise Active Directory services as part of post-exploitation activities. The threat actors use the obtained credentials to access Active Directory and make a copy of ntds.dit containing data for the entire Active Directory. ” continues the analysis. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Jamf

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

The remediation for a serious security vulnerability in Microsoft Active Directory (AD) prevents Apple macOS from binding. Affected machines will lose the ability to communicate with AD domain controllers, resulting in user lockout and potential data loss.

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Data Breach Today

MARCH 18, 2024

The Python Library Flaw Allows Directory Traversal Attacks Hackers who are possibly members of a criminal group affiliated with numerous ransomware-as-a-service operations are exploiting a directory traversal vulnerability in a Python library that allows unauthenticated remote attackers access to sensitive information from server files.

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Dark Reading

MAY 3, 2021

Incident responders who investigate attacks targeting Active Directory discuss methods used to gain entry, elevate privileges, and control target systems.

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Threatpost

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Microsoft is urging customers to patch two Active Directory domain controller bugs after a PoC tool was publicly released on Dec.

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IG Guru

DECEMBER 14, 2023

The post Queensland Government moves to modernise recordkeeping legislation, embed cultural integrity into First Nations public records via The Queensland Cabinet and Ministerial Directory (AUS) first appeared on IG GURU.

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Data Breach Today

OCTOBER 1, 2021

Discussion Also Addresses Fraudsters' Evolving Tactics In the latest weekly update, four editors at Information Security Media Group discuss important cybersecurity issues, including why enterprises need a multilayered approach to securing identity, how fraud will evolve in 2022 and the need to secure backdoors to prevent ransomware attacks.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 24, 2022

The maintainers of the Rust programming language fixed a high-severity flaw that could allow attackers to delete files and directories from a vulnerable system. An attacker can trigger the vulnerability to delete files and directories from a vulnerable system. ” The vulnerability affects Rust 1.0.0 through Rust 1.58.0,

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Security Affairs

APRIL 2, 2019

Attackers Store Malware in Hidden Directories of Compromised HTTPS Sites. Security experts at Zscaler discovered that threat actors are using hidden “well-known” directories of HTTPS sites to store and deliver malicious payloads. well-known/pki-validation/ directories to show the certificate authority (CA) that they control the domain.”

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Data Breach Today

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Moving From AFDS to Avoid 'Golden SAML' Wasn't A Cure-All A post-SolarWinds move away from Active Directory Federation Services to Azure AD - now known as Entra ID - didn't necessarily stop hackers from forging single sign on authentication messages, warn security researchers from Semperis, who unveiled an attack they dub "Silver SAML."

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Dark Reading

APRIL 1, 2020

Understanding the limitations of authentication protocols, especially as enterprises link authentication to cloud services to Active Directory, is essential for security teams in the modern federated enterprise.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

David Wells, a security expert from Tenable, devised a method to bypass Windows’ User Account Control (UAC) by spoofing the execution path of a file in a trusted directory. . Executables that can auto-elevate have specific configuration, need to be properly signed, and to run from a Trusted Directory (i.e. C:WindowsSystem32 ”).

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Dark Reading

JANUARY 17, 2023

Standalone product provides permission insights for Active Directory security and compliance.

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 29, 2019

Related: Why Active Directory is so heavily targeted For companies running Microsoft Windows, one such touch-all systems is Active Directory, or AD, the software that organizes and provides access to information across the breadth of Windows systems. To hear our full conversation, please give the accompanying podcast a listen.

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Dark Reading

APRIL 13, 2023

There are plenty of AD objects and groups that should be considered tier zero in every environment, but some will vary among organizations.

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Dark Reading

OCTOBER 7, 2019

Here are a few ways to give Active Directory the security love it needs. The unappreciated core of your enterprise IT network needs your security team's TLC.

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eSecurity Planet

JUNE 13, 2019

Active Directory can't protect against every security risk. Here are 9 Active Directory security tools that can help.

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Dark Reading

MARCH 14, 2023

One researcher thinks trust is broken in AD. Microsoft disagrees that there's a security vulnerability. But enterprise IT environments should be aware of an authentication gap either way.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 7, 2020

Windows computers on an internal corporate network validate other things on that network using a Microsoft innovation called Active Directory , which is the umbrella term for a broad range of identity-related services in Windows environments. However, experts say hardly any vulnerable organizations have deployed these fixes for two reasons.

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HID Global

OCTOBER 12, 2021

How to Use PKIaaS to Simplify Certificate Automation in Microsoft Active Directory. mchandarana. Tue, 10/12/2021 - 10:41.

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Dark Reading

JULY 15, 2022

IT asset tracker and auditor software has a critical issue with insecure object deserialization that could allow threat actors to execute code, researchers say.

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Data Breach Today

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Microsoft Sparred with SecureWorks Over Impact But Relents Microsoft has indicated it will make changes to reduce the risk around what a security vendor says is a vulnerability that lets attackers run brute-force credential attacks against Azure Active Directory.

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Dark Reading

MARCH 3, 2022

Attivo Networks ADSecure-DC solution joins the company’s existing suite of Active Directory protection products.

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Dark Reading

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Nearly all AD environments are vulnerable to identity attack paths -- a powerful, widespread, and difficult-to-detect attack technique. But we didn't say impossible. Here's how admins can stop them.

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Threatpost

JULY 28, 2021

Researchers preview work to be presented at Black Hat on how AD “misconfiguration debt” lays out a dizzying array of attack paths, such as in PetitPotam.

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Data Breach Today

AUGUST 26, 2022

Russian-Based Malware Enables Attackers to Login as Any User and Bypass MFA The recently discovered Russian-linked MagicWeb malware that exploits on-premises Microsoft Active Directory Federated Services servers to persist in compromised systems underscores the benefits of cloud-based infrastructure and a zero trust approach to architecture, security (..)

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Threatpost

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

Attackers check the victims' Office 365 credentials in real time as they are typed into the phishing landing page, by using authentication APIs.

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Data Breach Today

JANUARY 7, 2020

Passwords Remain a Growing Threat Vector Adopting the policies in NIST 800-171 brings multiple security-related benefits, including best practices for data access policies, reduced risk of data breaches and insider threats, and a scalable approach to protecting sensitive data.

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Jamf

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

Members from Insight took to the JNUC stage to discuss use cases they've encountered with Jamf Connect and Azure Directory Federation Services. Read now.

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Jamf

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

Members from Insight took to the JNUC stage to discuss use cases they've encountered with Jamf Connect and Azure Directory Federation Services. Read now.

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Data Breach Today

JULY 14, 2021

Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency calls on federal agencies to immediately implement a patch to address the "PrintNightmare" Windows Print Spooler service flaw and disable the service on servers on Microsoft Active Directory domain controllers.

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CILIP

JANUARY 21, 2020

Facet Publishing to reissue the Directory of Rare Book and Special Collections in the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland with new entries.

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Data Breach Today

APRIL 18, 2020

Hackers Using Stolen Active Directory Credentials to Access Networks CISA issued a warning to organizations running Pulse Secure VPN servers that their networks may still be vulnerable to hacking even if they applied patches for a previous flaw. Attackers are now using stolen Active Directory credentials to access networks.

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