Understanding SHORTUSR/USRFIELDS in AUTHINFO to Meet 12-Character Identity Limits for MQ on Windows

Introduction: Modern Directories Meet Legacy Constraints As organisations strengthen security and centralise identity management, IBM MQ administrators increasingly integrate with enterprise LDAP directories such as Microsoft Active Directory or OpenLDAP. This enables authentication using corporate credentials and authorisation through LDAP…

Cyber Briefing: 2026.03.24

Tax phishing surges, messaging apps targeted, Oracle RCE patched, supply-chain attacks hit CI/CD, major breach claims emerge, and global cybercrime crackdowns expand. This article has been indexed from CyberMaterial Read the original article: Cyber Briefing: 2026.03.24

Detecting IP KVMs, (Tue, Mar 24th)

I have written about how to use IP KVMs securely, and recently, researchers at Eclypsium published yet another report on IP KVM vulnerabilities. But there is another issue I haven't mentioned yet with IP KVMs: rogue IP KVMs. IP KVMs are often…