In Active Directory, there has been a method that’s been around for many years which changes the password last set date but not the actual password. This is what I call a “fake password change” since the account appears to have a recent password when scanning for old passwords based on password last set, but …
Category: Mitigation
Jan 20 2026
Active Directory Security Tip #16: Mitigating Kerberoast Attacks
There are two main password attacks leveraged by adversaries; one is called Password Spraying and the other is called Kerberoasting. This post focuses on identifying accounts that may be targeted for Kerberoasting and how to harden the environment against Kerberoasting.
Jan 31 2016
Microsoft EMET 5.5 Released – Benefits, New Features, Protection, Logging, & GPO Config
Microsoft recently released Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit (EMET) version 5.5 (it jumped from 5.2 to 5.5) which includes Windows 10 compatibility and better GPO support (among others). I’ve included information from a variety of Microsoft sources in this post so that others don’t have to search for the data separately. The resources/references are listed at …


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