Service Accounts, A Necessary Evil

Service Accounts are a necessary evil in systems administration. They tend to be shared across members of a team, have access to sensitive data and critical infrastructure. Yet, most companies have minimal safeguards in place for these accounts, and even less policy...

Disable Autorun GPO

In my past life as a consultant, I ran across an unusual exploit that was created when someone added an autorun.inf to the root of the company shared drive. This exploit infected the systems with malware that was easily removed, but it could have been worse. As a...