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I found a service account last month with a password set in 2016. It ran SQL, it had a service principal name registered, and its password was set to never expire. Someone even helpfully wrote the password in a OneNote called "IT Passwords." That account is a loaded gun pointed at the whole domain, and the fix has been sitting in Active Directory for...
A pentest report crossed my desk where the whole domain fell in about twenty minutes. No cracked domain admin password, no phishing, no malware. The attacker asked a forgotten certificate server for a certificate that said "I am the domain admin," and the server politely handed it over. Thats the quiet reality of AD CS attacks. Your certificate autho...
Ordered a new laptop for a remote hire last month. Dell shipped it straight to her apartment. She opened the box, connected to Wi-Fi, and signed in. I never touched the machine. Nobody on my team ever touched the machine. That whole flow is Intune zero touch deployment, and its worth actually explaining how it works instead of just saying "Autopilot ...
I used to work in an environment where the help desk admin spent half their day resetting passwords twice. Once in Active Directory, and then again in Office 365. If they forgot the second reset, the user could not sign in to their email, and the phone would ring. It was a miserable, repetitive cycle that drove everyone crazy. We eventually installed...
I once had a user call me at 8:00 AM on a Monday in a complete panic. Their screen was bright blue, asking for a 48-digit number they did not know. That was my introduction to the joy of troubleshooting BitLocker keys. They did not have the key. I did not have the key yet. We had to spend an hour digging through old documentation to find the key. It ...