In my last article I showed you how you can protect your computer against anonymous user account attacks by turning on account logon auditing so you could see when someone attempts to remotely logon to your account. Now I am going to help your increase your level of protection with the Account Lockout Policy.
Creating an Account Lockout Policy will protect your account by limiting the number of time a remote application or attacker can try to guess your password. This works by automatically locking out your account after a designated number of incorrect passwords were entered. Your account will remain locked out for a designated period of time before it is automatically unlocked and it can be logged into again. This provides a valuable addition to your account security because it can render brute force password attacks useless. If you have your lockout threshold set to 4 bad attempts and the lockout duration to 15 minutes, an attacker can try to guess your password a maximum of 16 times per hour. Read More»
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Apparently, the latest version of Windows Defender thinks that Alexa is a trojan, talk about false positives, unless, that is, Alexa has REALLY changed what they do. My guess is that it is detecting it as another piece of malware, as it shows in the screen shots, Win32/VB.BZ. I’m sure an apology is sure to come from Microsoft, and that they do not have something against Alexa.
This morning I discovered several PCs running Windows Defender and the Alexa Toolbar were receiving messages that the Alexa Toolbar was classified as a trojan. The name classification within Windows Defender was Win32/VB.BZ. Read More»
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February 17, 2007 by
Jason 
A handful of domains were transferred to Google today all of which are likely related. The one that sticks out is “Google-Express.com” though âit sounds like the service it is referring to will be used for something “fast” or to “expedite” something. Here is the complete list of domains transferred to Google:
GOOGLE-EXPRESS.COM, GET-ME-ON-GOOGLE.COM, GETMEON-GOOGLE.COM, GETONGOOGLE.NET, GETON-GOOGLE.COM, GET-ON-GOOGLE.COM, GETUSONGOOGLE.COM, GETUONGOOGLE.COM, UONGOOGLE.COM, YOUONGOOGLE.COM Read More»
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