Japan's space agency suffers cyber attack, points finger at Active Directory

Japan's Space Exploration Agency (JAXA) has reported a cyber incident. Chief cabinet secretary Matsuno mentioned the incident in his morning briefing, telling reporters the agency suspected a breach, possibly to its Active Directory implementation, so conducted further research and found illegal access. JAXA has since shut …

[bolac]

Active Directory is not exactly Rocket Science

No one can make it work. Even people who worked inside Microsoft keep telling me that it does not work there either.

In the explanations for the recent Azure secret key disaster, Microsoft has also (unknowingly?) admitted that they consider their client zone to be less secure than their server zone.

[Mike 137]

Nor is it a panacea

Most of the businesses with which I've consulted over a couple of decades have relied on AD as a key component of their defence against external threats. But that's really not a safe proposition -- it should overlie a physically secure segregated network.

[Anonymous Coward]

Re: Active Directory is not exactly Rocket Science

Nobody understands Active Directory, you just get familiar with it multiple ways of invoking the same results.

[pc-fluesterer.info]

Will they ever learn?

AD is not inevitable!

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