The latest LDAP protocol version, LDAPv3, is described in RFC 2251 and related RFCs. Another excellent reference is a book sometimes called the "LDAP bible". The book is titled Understanding and ...

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 ...

Business computer networks employ the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol, or LDAP, to distribute lists of information organized into hierarchies. To access a network's LDAP services, your computer ...

In a report released on Tuesday, Akamai says it spotted DDoS attacks leveraging the CLDAP protocol for the first time, and attacks using this protocol have the potential to incur serious damage, based ...

LDAP servers generally exchange information with their clients via entities called attributes. Attributes have three components: an attribute name (which may have nicknames), followed by an equal sign ...

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 ...

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 ...

If you want to dive into the realm of LDAP, learn how to have that server up and running quickly and easily. LDAP, or Lightweight Directory Access Protocol, is a directory service protocol. With it, ...

This article is loosely based on prototyping a number of J2EE applications constructs, such as servlets, EJB, MDB (Message-driven Beans) and JSP implemented using LDAP (Lightweight Directory Access ...