Michael Grandjean, employee at Univention and working in Professional Services, was like many Germans surprised by the audacious hack of the German Bundestag last month. Being in direct contact with customers he racked his brain how this bold “Advanced Persistent Threat” attack could have happened and, what is at least as important, whether such an attack could also be possible for our customers working with Univention Corporate Server-based environments, because the German Parliament uses OpenLDAP as does UCS and Active Directory services, which are also provided by UCS via Samba.

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