How to Exploit Active Directory ACL Attack Paths Through LDAP Relaying Attacks

Overview This article describes methods by which an attacker can induce a victim user into authenticating using the NT Lan Manager (NTLM) Authentication Protocol to an attacker-controlled “Intranet” site, even in instances where that site points to an external internet-facing IP address. An attacker can then combine this primitive with LDAP relaying capabilities and the […]
CIS Controls Version 8 Overview: Bye-Bye “Top 20”

The Center for Internet Security (CIS) has just released Version 8 of their popular security controls. With this version, the “Top 20” moniker has been lost and the list of controls reduced to 18. The Version 8 is a major update to the Safeguards, builds on some of the new features in Version 7.1 (Implementation […]