How to disable credential caching on client computers
Don't want usernames and passwords to be stored on your client machines? You can disable this using Group Policy.
Don't become the next insider threat statistic
I would never make disparaging comments about my wife, especially since she’s smarter than me and has a lot more letters after her name than I do, but she’s driving me crazy with the weather. Ever since she discovered the weather forecast websites, she browses to about 10 of them and tells me what they’re predicting about the weather. And usually while they’re predicting sunshine, it’s pouring rain and she’s asking me why they’ve got it wrong and what does it mean that there’s a 70% chance of something happening! She’s the one with the fancy degree, so why is she asking me?
How Herbert Thompson stole his friend's identity
This is a great account of how easy it is to break into people's accounts.
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Single point of failure. That's the right term for talking about the mess in San Francisco, where last week the city government finally regained control of its backbone network. Terry Childs, the net admin jailed for locking down administrative access, turned over the passwords during a secret visit from Mayor Gavin Newsom.
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Either way you look at it Microsoft Data Center management did not follow standards or best practices in this failure. In which case it makes me wonder more about the outsourcing of corporate data much less personal data.
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