Initially known as a subset of X.500, LDAP has been adopted by the industry as its chosen native protocol for directory access, with vast global prospects. The Lightweight Directory Access Protocol ...

Brian Jones at O'ReillyNet has written an excellent introduction (or illuminated re-think, depending on how you want to look at it) to the LDAP protocol. LDAP, which stands for Lightweight Directory ...

Spring LDAP is a Spring-based framework that simplifies LDAP programming on the Java platform. In this step-by-step guide to using Spring LDAP you will learn how the framework handles the low-level ...

Attackers are abusing yet another widely used protocol in order to amplify distributed denial-of-service attacks: the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP), which is used for directory services ...

As systems get larger and the number of users they support increases, it becomes more difficult to manage systems using only the old-fashioned UNIX /etc/passwd file. A common solution to this problem ...

The origins of LDAP begin with the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) based in Geneva. ITU began setting email standards which required a directory of names (and other information) that could ...

LDAPNightmare: If December Patch Tuesday server updates have not yet been installed, it’s time to do so to avoid DoS or RCE attacks on Active Directory domain controllers as shown by PoC exploit.