by Darren Mar-Elia | Oct 17, 2018 | Tips & Tricks
Hey Folks. It’s been too long since I posted here, so I thought I’d break my fast by posting something a bit meaty. Many moons ago, I created a whitepaper, which is on the Gpoguy portion of this site, that described how and where the various areas in Group...
by Darren Mar-Elia | Oct 1, 2018 | Whitepaper
(This article was originally written way back in the early 2000s. I’ve finally gotten around to updating it for the modern era 😊) Group Policy leverages a complex and sometimes inconsistent model when it comes to storing the settings that you specify within a Group...
by Darren Mar-Elia | Jul 10, 2018 | Security Policy
With this post and my last post, I guess I’m on a path of finding interesting ways to “break” AD. The last post related to AD denial of service and this one relates to an interesting way to get to privileged access on AD by gaining what would seem to...
by Darren Mar-Elia | Jun 12, 2018 | Security-related
I was motivated to write this post based on a vendor blog that I read recently, that talked about ways to maliciously perform what amounted to a denial of service attack on AD. Ostensibly the post was designed to sell software, which I don’t begrudge, but it got...
by Darren Mar-Elia | Apr 27, 2018 | Security-related
A couple of weeks ago, I gave a webinar for Semperis, on the topic of protecting AD from attackers. I presented 5 tips on the things you can do within your AD and Windows environments, to protect against “information exposure” that might allow an attacker...
