by Darren Mar-Elia | Jan 8, 2021 | GP Troubleshooting
Well, it’s been a while since I last blogged, and this is one I’ve been wanting to write for a while. A few months ago I was trying to troubleshoot why a GPMC backup was throwing errors on Windows Server Core 2012 and 2016. I had installed the GPMC...
by Darren Mar-Elia | Aug 3, 2020 | Security-related
The story of the Trojan Horse is well known to everyone who has taken a history class. True or not, the story goes that the Greeks, in an effort to finally sack the city of Troy, construct a giant wooden horse with some of their top soldiers hidden inside. They wheel...
by Darren Mar-Elia | Jun 16, 2020 | CVE-2020-1317, Group Policy, Security-related
Earlier this month, Microsoft released an advisory for CVE-2020-1317 which describes a privilege escalation vulnerability in Group Policy. This was further detailed by the discoverer of the vulnerability on the Cyberark website. The nature of this issue is interesting...
by Darren Mar-Elia | Dec 1, 2019 | Whitepaper
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by Darren Mar-Elia | Nov 19, 2019 | Security-related
About a year ago, I posted about the perils of granting someone write access on the Active Directory Domain NC “head” object, and how you could use that and some quirks in Restricted Groups policy to essentially elevate your access in AD, just based on...
