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Explains an old trick on how to guess someone else's password without anything getting logged in the domain controller's event logs Read More...
Today Symantec released two new whitepapers about security protections in Vista: Analysis of GS Protection in Windows Vista and Analysis of Address Space Layout Randomization on Windows Vista. Although my last blog post criticized Symantec for its hyped...
Recently a friend was complaining to me about the “screen flickering” that occurs whenever a User Account Control (UAC) prompt comes up in Vista and he wanted to know how to turn it off—not UAC, just the dimming and flickering effects. He...
When I was a teenager in California there was private oil pier near Rincon that we liked to jump off. It was great—you’d throw your surf board off first so there was no backing out, because it was scary looking down at the dark green ocean so far below...
I have always been annoyed with the huge number of files under the Windows directory, but I was very surprised when I looked at my Windows directory under Vista: 39,609 files and 7,411 folders! Read More...