Tag: Credentials

The Future of Digital Identity: Decentralised Identifiers and Verifiable Credentials Explained

Decentralised Identity has been gaining traction as the future of digital identity management, with terms like Decentralised Identifiers (DIDs) and Verifiable Credentials (VCs) garnering attention as the building blocks of Decentralised, or Self-Sovereign Identity. However, as this paradigm shift...

The New York Times Trashes Its Liberal Credentials

The New York Times needs to course-correct — now — before it further damages the liberal cause. The Times bears the mantle of America’s “newspaper of record,” of recorded event. It also sets the standards for the politics, culture, and criticism pursue...

The Phantom Credentials of SCCM: Why the NAA Won’t Die

If a Windows machine has ever been an SCCM client, there may be credential blobs for the network access account (NAA) on disk. If an Active Directory account has ever been configured as an NAA, there may be credential blobs for that account on Windows hosts in the environment. Stop u...

Using Responder to Capture Credentials

In this ethical hacking project, using a safe virtual network environment that I set up using VirtualBox, I go over Responder for educational purposes and to learn about one of the Kali Linux tools, Responder. Responder is a sniffing tool used to gain vulnerable credentials from network traffic, inc...

Your Credentials Do Not Make Me Trust You

I’ll be the first to say my degrees don’t mean what most people think they mean. Yes, I have three degrees. My doctorate is a terminal degree and the highest degree one can obtain in my field. I have post-doctoral research experience and was a faculty member at a large university in the ...