Security

You might have heard about the "Quora hacked". That's right and Quora is a popular question and answer site. Probably by now some of you might have received the email to reset your Quora password. It…

Chrome is one of the popular browser used by millions of users. While there are other browsers in competition, Chrome is still favorite for many. This week Google revealed that Chrome will consume…

This week of mine has been very busy in understanding about Meltdown and Spectre vulnerabilities. You should know that Meltdown and Spectre unleash critical vulnerabilities in modern processors. In…

Creating secure hack proof strong email password is something that I will be covering in this post. I will also share some tips on securing your email accounts with a strong passwords. We live in a…

On Friday, across the globe a massive cyberattack was observed. This attack called as Wannacry Ransomware attack on Friday hit hundreds of thousands of computers across the globe. The attack hit large…

In this post we will see how to reset Windows 7 administrator password. As an example I have got a computer installed with Windows 7 professional with SP1 operating system. This machine is a not a…

In this post we will discuss about the Reconnaissance phase in network penetration. Reconnaissance is an attempt to gain information about targeted computers or networks that can be used as a initial…

In this short post we will see how to deploy Microsoft LAPS using SCCM. Microsoft LAPS can be deployed using various methods, one among them is using the Configuration Manager or SCCM. The Local…

The post details the steps to configure Group Policy for LAPS. This is the third and final post that covers the group policy configuration of LAPS. In this post we will modify some of the group…

This post covers the steps to configure Active Directory for LAPS. In short we will prepare our Active Directory for implementing LAPS. In my previous post, we saw how to install and deploy…