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Build Your Own 2FA for the Windows Logon, Part 3: Gating Network Logons
Oct 11, 2026
Part 2 refuses every network logon for an enrolled account, which makes the account safe and useless. Part 3 adds a gate you open once with a one-time code, so SMB, RPC and WinRM work again for a short window. In C++, with the full source.
Windows
35 min · French Press
35 min · French Press
#windows
#lsa
#ntlm
#smb
ADHardenKit: Hardening AD Without Breaking It
Oct 7, 2026
LDAP signing, SMB signing, NTLM, Kerberos with AES only. Every hardening checklist has them. I wrote a tool that turns them on in an order that doesn't break the domain.
Tools
5 min · Cappuccino
5 min · Cappuccino
#active-directory
#windows-server
#powershell
#hardening
NTLM-Analyzer: Find Out Who Still Uses NTLM
Oct 3, 2026
Windows logs a lot of NTLM activity, but you have to piece it together yourself. I built a tool that shows which users and programs still use NTLMv1 or NTLMv2, and what already runs over Kerberos.
Tools
6 min · Cappuccino
6 min · Cappuccino
#active-directory
#ntlm
#kerberos
#auditing
How NTLM works in Active Directory
May 7, 2025
How NTLM proves that you know a password without sending it, what the domain controller does, the difference between NTLMv1 and NTLMv2, and why Microsoft is phasing it out.
Active Directory
9 min · Cappuccino
9 min · Cappuccino
#ntlm
#active-directory
#authentication
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