Active Directory-related KnowledgeBase articles for December 2011

Most people spend the short days and long nights of December with loved ones. At Microsoft, December is a vacation month for a lot of employees as the end of December marks the first half of the fiscal year and targets have mostly been met. For the Active Directory team, however, December marked the fourth … Continue reading "Active Directory-related KnowledgeBase articles for December 2011"

MS11-095 Vulnerability in Active Directory could allow Remote Code Execution (Important)

On Tuesday November 13, 2011 Microsoft, in its monthly Patch Tuesday, released a Security Bulleting addressing an issue with Active Directory. To exploit this vulnerability, an attacker would first need to acquire credentials to log on to an Active Directory domain. An attacker could then run a specially crafted application that could exploit the vulnerability … Continue reading "MS11-095 Vulnerability in Active Directory could allow Remote Code Execution (Important)"