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...
by Darren Mar-Elia | Oct 15, 2019 | Security-related
One of the advantages of messing around with Group Policy since before it shipped, is that there is a lot of stuff rattling around in my head that I’ve been re-thinking in the context of today’s modern threat landscape. This allows me to think about...