Attackers are abusing yet another widely used protocol in order to amplify distributed denial-of-service attacks: the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP), which is used for directory services ...

All directories “basically serve as a way for applications to look up other applications, for people to look up other applications or resources, or for managers to look up reservations or resources,” ...

One of the advantages of Microsoft's Active Directory is that it allows users to search objects in the database by performing Lightweight Directory Access Protocol queries. LDAP is an industry ...

Microsoft's planned changes to the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) will not take effect until the second half of this year. Update 3/2: More information can be found in this Microsoft FAQ ...

LDAPNightmare: If December Patch Tuesday server updates have not yet been installed, it’s time to do so to avoid DoS or RCE attacks on Active Directory domain controllers as shown by PoC exploit.

Microsoft expects to delay enforcement of configuration changes to the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) until the second half of this year, according to a Tuesday update to Security ...

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 ...

Microsoft updated an August security advisory this week to urge organizations using the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) in supported Windows systems to implement some configuration ...