Windows users, let’s get real. When your screen goes blue, your world goes gray—and Microsoft knows it. After a massive outage in July 2024 caused by a faulty patch from CrowdStrike, which plunged 8.5 million Windows devices into the dreaded "Blue Screen of Death" (BSOD), the tech giant is not...
I recently created a Windows 2019 Server instance on AWS and wanted to install a few applications for remote access for some users. The "Install Application on Remote Desktop Server" was not available in Control Panel > Programs.
I tried to change to "Install" mode by typing ... "change user...
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Since I did a clean re-install of Windows 10, on July first, I have not been able to re-install my Okidata Microline 590C printer, I keep getting the following message "Unable to install Oki ML 590C Elite, Type 3 - User Mode, x64 Driver." I have tried other Oki models with the same result. I...
Some of the most important security features in modern web browsers are those that you never actually see as you browse the web. These security features work behind the scenes to protect you from browser-based vulnerabilities that could be abused by hackers to compromise your device or personal...
In this video Seth Moore describes another benefit of the Windows 10 Isolated User Mode: credential theft mitigation. He first describes the kinds of credentials that can be stolen and how a hacker gains access to them. He then describes how the Windows 10 Isolated User Mode prevents the typical...
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In this final video in the Windows 10 Isolated User mode series Dave takes us through several engineering aspects associated with trustlets. First he describes how lsass.exe (the Local Security Authority Subsystem Service responsible for enforcing security on Windows) now can have a companion...
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In Part 1 of this mini-series we dove into the new Link Removed. In this episode Link Removed, a Senior Security Engineer here at Microsoft, takes us through some of the actual processes and features that come in Windows 10 thanks to this new Isolated User Mode concept. In essence it is a more...