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FIDO Downgrade Attack Hits Microsoft Entra ID

September 2, 2025
Researchers show how spoofing unsupported browsers can force users off passkeys, exposing Entra ID accounts to phishing and session hijack.  Who/What/When: On August 13, 2025, security researchers detailed a FIDO downgrade attack against Microsoft Entra ID that manipulates login flows to sidestep passkeys. Where/Why: By spoofing an unsupported browser, attackers trigger an error that removes…
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Storm-0501 Exploits Microsoft Entra ID to Wipe and Ransom Azure Data

September 1, 2025
In August 2025, Microsoft warned that Storm-0501, a financially motivated ransomware group, is abusing Microsoft Entra ID and hybrid Active Directory synchronization accounts to seize control of entire cloud environments. Victims reported that attackers exfiltrated Azure data, deleted backups, and issued ransom demands over Microsoft Teams. For IT admins and security engineers, this marks a…
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Before migrating to Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS) 2022

October 31, 2023
In today’s dynamic IT landscape, the need for organizations to be agile and adaptable is more pronounced than ever. Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS) stands as the cornerstone of organizational identity. While the allure of designing a brand-new AD infrastructure can be strong, especially with the ever-evolving features and security enhancements, the reality for most organizations is…
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How to change the IP address of a domain controller

January 19, 2023
The domain controller (DC) is an integral part of your IT infrastructure. Due to its role within the domain, it’s crucial that any change to its IP is done correctly. The DC’s address is statically assigned to the server. However, you might be required to change the DC’s IP address at times—when there’s a change of the IP addressing scheme on the local subnet, for…
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What is Active Directory?

February 4, 2021
Large organizations depend on Windows Active Directory (AD) to maintain order in the chaos that is managing users, computers, permissions, and file servers. Thesheer number of articles available on the internet can disconcert beginners and make AD management seem more confusing than it actually is. This articleaims to demystify AD for the dummies. What is Active Directory? AD is…
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Active Directory Sites

February 4, 2021
What you will learn: Active Directory (AD) is a powerful and versatile directory service that allows for quite a bit of customization according to an organization’s needs. Part of the reason that makes AD a powerful tool is that it allows the AD network to be designed based on two distinctly different structures it possesses: a logical structure and a physical structure. The logical…
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Hyper-V Virtualization: An explanation

February 4, 2021
What you will learn from this article: There are many scenarios where something would need to be tested on a server or a computer machine. In such scenarios, instead of using a physical test machine, it would be better to use a virtual representation of a target machine, so that should anything go wrong, this ‘virtual machine’ can be shut down without affecting the real machine.
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