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A security researcher from Tenable Research discovered a hardcoded backdoor in the 3.1.190 PremiSys IDenticard system that "allows attackers to add new users to the badge system, modify existing users, delete users, assign permission, and pretty much any other administrative function." Security...

Can't remember where I read this long ago. It has been said that Windows users should do daily tasks (email, web browsing, gaming, MS Office, etc) under a User account. And to only use Admin accounts when necessary. For instance, certain programs could not be installed or run unless logged...

The Register is reporting that "On a Samba 4 Active Directory domain controller (AD DC) any authenticated user can change other users' passwords over LDAP, including the passwords of administrative users and service accounts." The problem is in all versions of Samba from 4.0.0 and newer where it...

Ordinarily I ran Windows 10 as an admin. I had forgotten why. After the Wannacrypt thing, I decided to try Windows 10 as a user again. It was not pretty. The right-click menus kept getting corrupt - something to do with having different levels of scaling on different monitors apparently...