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Are Forgotten AD Service Accounts Leaving You at Risk? The Hacker [email protected] (The Hacker News)

June 17, 2025

For many organizations, Active Directory (AD) service accounts are quiet afterthoughts, persisting in the background long after their original purpose has been forgotten. To make matters worse, these orphaned service accounts (created for legacy applications, scheduled tasks, automation scripts, or test environments) are often left active with non-expiring or stale passwords.
It’s no surprise For many organizations, Active Directory (AD) service accounts are quiet afterthoughts, persisting in the background long after their original purpose has been forgotten. To make matters worse, these orphaned service accounts (created for legacy applications, scheduled tasks, automation scripts, or test environments) are often left active with non-expiring or stale passwords.
It’s no surprise 

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Derrick Jackson is a IT Security Professional with over 10 years of experience in Cybersecurity, Risk, & Compliance and over 15 Years of Experience in Enterprise Information Technology

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