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Password History/Password policy
I'm referring to "remembered" password that the domain keeps so a user cannot reuse that password until it has expired in what was set at Password Policy on DC (W2003/W2008).
Where is password ...
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How can I detect users that have requested AD Administrators to reuse an expired password?
There is a trend among companies I've worked at where administrators (or helpdesk folks) give a user a courtesy extension of the old expired password... rather than forcing the user to change it.
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How can I prevent someone from accessing a Windows XP system via boot disk?
Apparently a computer system protected by a a login password, e.g. Windows XP, can be easily hacked by someone with physical access to it using methods like this one:
http://www.raymond.cc/blog/...
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How can I mitigate the threat that DPAPick poses to my DPAPI protected data?
The Windows Data Protection API (DPAPI) is the suggested method for storing secrets on Windows systems (such as database passwords required by ASP.Net applications).
DPAPick was presented at BlackHat ...
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