This article is loosely based on prototyping a number of J2EE applications constructs, such as servlets, EJB, MDB (Message-driven Beans) and JSP implemented using LDAP (Lightweight Directory Access ...

Suppose you have an Internet Mail Access Protocol (IMAP) server and a bunch of users, but you don't want to give each user a shell account on the server. You'd rather use some sort of central ...

A Finnish university project to test the security of communications protocols has revealed serious vulnerabilities in several implementations of the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) ...

Fortinet says threat actors are abusing CVE-2020-12812, an improper authentication vulnerability in FortiOS, in a fresh wave ...

If, like about 10 million other folks, you're a Java developer, you probably want to know how to keep Java code secure. Developers will always need to stay on top of tips and best practices to tackle ...

LDAP signing is an authentication method in Windows Server that can improve the security of a directory server. Once enabled, it will reject any request that doesn’t ask for signing or if the request ...

Microsoft today released updates to plug at least 70 security holes in Windows and Windows software, including one vulnerability that is already being exploited in active attacks. The zero-day seeing ...

Although Microsoft has a permanent fix on the way, it's possible that you're exposing domain admin account credentials in cleartext. Here's how to check for and solve that problem. First the good news ...

Business computer networks employ the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol, or LDAP, to distribute lists of information organized into hierarchies. To access a network's LDAP services, your computer ...