Archive for the 'Security' Category
How to Change or Stop Password Expiration
Wednesday, October 3rd, 2007This applies to the Vista Business and Vista Ultimate versions. By default, Vista is set up with passwords which will expire after 42 days. 14 days in advance, Vista will start warning you of this fact. NOTE: You must do this from within a Administrator account or use Run as administrator.
Windows Vista Security Part 2
Monday, October 1st, 2007This week we continue our tour of security features in Windows Vista. Our focus is on those features that are new or upgraded from previous versions of Windows such as Windows 2000 and Windows XP. Sooner or later, Windows users will have to make the leap and upgrade to Vista. So even if you are [...]
Windows Vista Security Part 1
Monday, October 1st, 2007Are you ready to make the leap to Vista? Maybe not, but it is good to be prepared. One of the most important considerations when upgrading is security. Will Vista’s new security features help or hurt the fledgling OS? Read on to find out! As a Windows XP user, sooner or later you will have [...]
How to Reset your Windows Vista Password easily
Monday, October 1st, 2007Many a times you would have been caught up in an awkward situation where you have forgotten or simply mis-placed your Windows Vista Password. So here’s how you can easily reset your Windows Vista Password, I’ll touch upon two methods on how you can achieve it.
Windows Vistas integrity mechanism explained
Thursday, September 20th, 2007Most of the talk about new security in Microsoft Windows Vista focuses on User Account Control, or UAC. UAC itself, however, is simply one implementation of a deeper mechanism in Vista that allows for more precise control over objects and programs in Windows than before: the integrity mechanism. The integrity mechanism, or IM for short, [...]
Group Policy Extensions in Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008, Part 3
Thursday, September 20th, 2007If you would like to be notified when Brien Posey releases the next article in this series please sign up to the WindowsNetworking.com Real time article update newsletter. Being that security was Microsoft’s paramount concern when developing Windows Server 2008 and Windows Vista, it should come as no surprise that some of the new group [...]
Group Policy Extensions in Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008, Part 2
Thursday, September 20th, 2007One of the major security weaknesses of previous Windows operating systems has always been the existence of a local administrator account on workstations. While Windows Vista does make use of a local Administrator account, the Accounts: Administrator Account Status policy setting can be used to disable it. By default, the administrator account is enabled, but [...]
Group Policy Extensions in Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008, Part 1
Thursday, September 20th, 2007Ever since the creation of Windows 2000 Server, the primary mechanism for managing security on a Windows network has been group policies. For several years though, I have felt that group policies needed to be extended because there are many aspects of the Windows operating system that simply cannot be controlled by group policies. Fortunately, [...]
Vista attacked by 13-year-old virus
Thursday, September 20th, 2007A batch of laptops pre-installed with Windows Vista Home Premium was found to have been infected with a 13-year-old boot sector virus. Those of you with a long memory will vividly recall the year 1994: Nirvana’s lead singer Kurt Cobain died, South Africa held its first multi-racial elections, and Tony Blair became leader of the [...]
Attacking Microsoft Windows Vista
Saturday, September 1st, 2007Once again security researcher Joanna Rutkowska took the stage at Black Hat, and once again she set out to prove in glorious detail how to exploit and attack Microsoft Windows Vista. Rutkowska blew the lid off last year’s Black Hat event with her landmark presentation ahead of the official Vista release where she demonstrated a [...]
