Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS) remains central to enterprise identity, powering authentication and authorization across hybrid environments. As organizations modernize, AD DS continues to be ...

Active Directory remains one of the most important tools for IT administrators managing users, computers, and security policies across a Windows network. While it’s not installed by default in Windows ...

Microsoft has confirmed that the September 2025 security updates are causing Active Directory issues on Windows Server 2025 systems. As the company explains in a Windows release health dashboard ...

Active Directory account lockouts happen when too many failed login attempts trigger security limits. Common causes include outdated cached credentials, expired service account passwords, mobile ...

Even after 25 years, Microsoft Active Directory (AD) remains the backbone of identity and access management in up to 90% of enterprise IT environments worldwide, making it a high-value target for ...

Hacker Reveals New Authentication Bypass in Active Directory and Entra ID Environments Your email has been sent At last week’s Black Hat event in Las Vegas, Dirk-jan Mollema, hacker, security ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Davey Winder is a veteran cybersecurity writer, hacker and analyst. Privilege escalation vulnerabilities are among the worst you ...

Unprivileged users with permission to create objects inside an Active Directory organizational unit can abuse the new Delegated Managed Service Accounts (dMSA) feature to elevate their privilege to ...

The delegated Managed Service Account (dMSA) feature was introduced in Windows Server 2025 as a secure replacement for legacy service accounts and to prevent credential attacks like Kerberoasting, but ...

In Windows Server, a child domain is a subdomain under a parent domain, inheriting policies and trust relationships. For example, if the parent domain is example.com, a child domain might be ...