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eBook: A quarter century of Active Directory

Active Directory (AD) remains the backbone of enterprise identity and a prime target for attackers. Explore its 25-year history, evolving risks, and how organizations can modernize password security. This eBook shows why AD defenses must evolve and how to stop credential-based attacks before they succeed: Why passwords, MFA, and backups fail against modern threats How infostealers and dark web exposures fuel AD compromise Key compliance mandates requiring credential screening Six practical steps to harden AD … More → The post eBook: A quarter century of Active Directory appeared first on Help Net Security.
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Ransomware, extortion groups adapt as payment rates reach historic lows

Ransomware groups are facing an economic downturn of their own: In Q3 2025, only 23 percent of victims paid a ransom, and for data theft incidents that involved no encryption, the payment rate dropped to just 19 percent, according to Coveware. “Cyber defenders, law enforcement, and legal specialists should view this as validation of collective progress. The work that gets put in to prevent attacks, minimize the impact of attacks, and successfully navigate a cyber … More → The post Ransomware, extortion groups adapt as payment rates reach historic lows appeared first on Help Net Security.
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Advancing AI tools starts by business process, IT improvements

Snowflake and Archetype Consulting worked with Vermont to improve the employee and citizen experience in its healthcare marketplace. The post Advancing AI tools starts by business process, IT improvements first appeared on Federal News Network.
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Air Force opening up unused land on five military bases for private AI centers

Each project must be valued at more than $500 million and require at least 100 megawatts of power to qualify. The post Air Force opening up unused land on five military bases for private AI centers first appeared on Federal News Network.
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Air Force opening up unused land on five military bases for private AI centers

Each project must be valued at more than $500 million and require at least 100 megawatts of power to qualify. The post Air Force opening up unused land on five military bases for private AI centers first appeared on Federal News Network.
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A new C2 era dawns – thanks to F1 racing

Satellite swarms, containerization and new architectures combine to give new collaboration possibilities for military command-and-control. The post A new C2 era dawns – thanks to F1 racing first appeared on Federal News Network.
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72 states sign first global UN Convention against Cybercrime

The world’s first global convention to prevent and respond to cybercrime opened for signature today in Hanoi, Vietnam, and will remain open at United Nations Headquarters in New York until 31 December 2026. Adopted by the UN General Assembly in December 2024, the UN Convention against Cybercrime will enter into force 90 days after its 40th ratification. Once in force, a Conference of the States Parties will meet periodically to strengthen national capacities, enhance cooperation, … More → The post 72 states sign first global UN Convention against Cybercrime appeared first on Help Net Security.
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Bytes over DNS, (Mon, Oct 27th)

I was intrigued when Johannes talked about malware that uses BASE64 over DNS to communicate. Take a DNS request like this: label1.label2.tld. Labels in a request like this can only be composed with letters (not case-sensitive), digits and a hyphen character (-). While BASE64 is encoded with letters (uppercase and lowercase), digits and special characters + and /. And also a special padding character: =.
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