In early June, Computerworld published the story, “Visual Tour: 20 Things You Won’t Like About Windows Vista.” At the bottom of page 5 of that story, I wrote that the built-in Administrator account is ...

These Microsoft tools help you reduce, remove or lock down admin access to improve security Your email has been sent It’s not news that the extra privileges on admin accounts make them a target for ...

On Linux, the umask defines how new files and directories inherit access rights. Linux uses your current umask value to ...

I'm new at this whole DBA thing, so maybe this is totally standard practice.<BR><BR>But we have a software vendor that wants remote access to our SQL server at an admin level to setup and install ...

Windows only: Sudo for Windows is an alternative for those with programs they often have to "Run as Administrator" in Windows XP or Vista, but offers a more convenient and accessible way of getting ...

UPDATE2: Twitter confirms the unauthorized access. UPDATE: The Twitter admin hack appears to be the result of a successful social engineering attack against one of Twitter's employees -- similar ...

In a coordinated vulnerability disclosure released today, researchers at SecureAuth said they had found multiple vulnerabilities in Pydio 8 (version 8.2.2) that would grant access to a malicious actor ...

If you're using Apple's latest macOS High Sierra, you'll want to be wary of giving people access to your computer. Initially tweeted by developer Lemi Orhan Ergin, there's a super-easy exploit that ...

AI-powered coding platform Sourcegraph revealed that its website was breached this week using a site-admin access token accidentally leaked online on July 14th. An attacker used the leaked token on ...