A recent report from Microsoft reinforces warnings about the critical role Active Directory (AD) domain controllers play in large-scale ransomware attacks, aligning with U.S. government advisories on ...

Once authenticated, the attacker resets the domain controller’s machine account password to a known value. From there, they can extract all password hashes stored in Active Directory, create new ...

Microsoft has updated its guidance for securing Domain Controllers (DCs). Previously, the company told customers not to allow internet access on DCs in any scenario. This is not the case anymore. Many ...

Microsoft is reinforcing warnings about the critical role Active Directory (AD) domain controllers play in large-scale ransomware attacks, aligning with U.S. government advisories on the persistent ...

On the surface, Active Directory groups are a simple and straightforward way to manage identities (users and/or computers) and assign permissions. Users or computers are added as group members, and ...

Microsoft on Wednesday announced that it has updated its "best practices" advice for securing domain controllers. In general, Microsoft wants organizations to use the Azure Active Directory identity ...

Microsoft’s May 2026 security update fixes what the Hong Kong Computer Emergency Response Team describes as 138 vulnerabilities across Microsoft products, but one flaw stands out: a critical bug in ...

However, patches for two elevations of privilege vulnerabilities in Windows Kerberos and Active Directory Domain Services (tracked as CVE-2022-26931 and CVE-2022-26923) will also cause service ...