I came across an interesting post from Mark Russinovich on his blog recently. The original post was written a couple of years ago and details how a user with limited user rights can circumvent Microsoft group policies being applied by using the Sysinternals tool called gpdisable. What’s amusing, but not particularly surprising, is that now [...]
Archive for December, 2007
How to choose a password
01Dec07Another interesting post on the McAfee Avert Labs Blog discusses the relative importance of password complexity versus password length. They used the Cain & Abel utility to work out the time required to break various passwords and came to the conclusion that password length trumps complexity.
