Understanding Active Directory Terminology: Navigating the Forest and Trees

Date: 05/08/2025

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Hearing terms like “forest,” “trees,” and the associated “trust relationships” for the first time can be quite daunting. Active Directory itself is equally intimidating, often regarded as one of Microsoft’s most complex technologies. To effectively manage AD and comprehend its operations, the first step is to learn the basic terminology and understand how its components relate to each other. That’s what I’ll explain.
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Manjaro vs Arch Linux: Why Stick with Arch for Advanced Users?

Date: 05/08/2025

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The world of Linux desktop systems is incredibly diverse. As of today, the Distrowatch.com ranking lists 288 distributions, each with its own philosophy and area of application. Throughout the history of the ranking, hundreds of distributions have come and gone, but one has managed to gain popularity and rise to third place in just a few years. That is Manjaro, a distribution based on Arch Linux, which has surpassed its parent by a significant margin.
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Harness the woolly beast! Identifying critical data in code with Llama

Date: 04/08/2025

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This article discusses three topics: (1) why should AppSec engineers closely monitor sensitive data contained in their products; (2) how to extract the structure of transmitted data from the service code; and (3) how to assess severity for particular fields in found objects in accordance with predefined rules (or how to ask a local open-source LLM model to assess such data for you).
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