3Standard users having elevated privileges is never good news. Accounts such as domain admins, enterprise admins, schema operators, krbtgt, administrators, and replicators, are a few privileged user groups within an Active Directory (AD) environment. The AdminCount attribute is an AD attribute set to “1” on privileged user accounts.

Forescout’s Vedere Labs latest research report is the first systematic study into deep lateral movement: how advanced adversaries can move laterally among devices at the controller level – also known as Purdue level 1 or L1 – of OT networks.

Authentication, at its core, is the act of verifying credentials. In the case of human beings, it’s as simple as answering the question, “Who are you, and how do I know for sure it’s you?” Authentication is something we’re constantly engaging with in everyday life.

Operating in a cloud model means not only being able to access your data anywhere but that your infrastructure is flexible and scalable enough to accommodate demands that change from day to day or sometimes from moment to moment. This is easy enough to achieve in a public cloud, where resources can be made elastic and added and removed dynamically.

Using an outdated jQuery library can open up your web application to vulnerabilities. Read more to find out how to find and fix jQuery vulnerabilities. jQuery is among the oldest JavaScript libraries available online. It simplifies your coding and is used by countless websites. But there is an inherent danger that lies with outdated jQuery libraries: they are vulnerable to risks such as cross-site scripting.