Tag: Security tips

Attackers frequently rely on lateral movement techniques to infiltrate corporate networks and obtain privileged access to credentials and data. In particular, one common technique is pass-the-hash: Hackers use stolen password hashes to authenticate as a user without ever having the user's...

Mimikatz has become the standard tool for extracting passwords and hashes from memory, performing pass-the-hash attacks, and creating domain persistence through Golden Tickets. Let’s take a look at how easy Mimikatz makes it to perform pass-the-hash and other authentication-based attacks, and...

Active Directory is the foundation of authentication and authorization in your IT environment, so you need to know how to keep it secure. That’s why Netwrix is happy to support a 7 Minute Security podcast about the fundamentals of Active Directory security. In this episode, Brian Johnson, the...

The recent Office of Personnel Management (OPM) hack reveals that the US Government needs to significantly “up” its security game. Upping the game means that government security staff needs to impose greater restrictions on information access. But, one should ask, “Why were these secret...