Asking price to banish ghost of Active Directory admin past was $1.7m: Redmond paid 'undisclosed amount'
Victims of early versions of Microsoft's Active Directory can breathe a sigh of relief: the software giant has snapped up the infamous corp.com domain.
As noted by security researcher Brian Krebs, the big-hearted software giant stepped in after a private citizen put the domain up for sale.
The sale potentially put hundreds of thousands of Windows PCs at risk due to some iffy Active Directory settings around the time of Windows 2000 Server and equally iffy practices at companies setting up Microsoft's then latest and greatest.
The issue arises from administrators accepting the example of "corp" during the setup of Active Directory in early versions of Windows. As an internal domain name, using something ..
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