Microsoft’s Local Administrator Password Solution (LAPS) is a legacy Windows tool that IT admins can use to manage account passwords of domain-joined computers. The company has finally updated LAPS this year and plans to bring it natively into Windows in 2023. In this article, I’ll explain how this new native version of LAPS works and...
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LAPS-managed local administrator accounts can be used for remote administration providing that policy doesn’t block their use.
LastPass has announced that its development environment was recently compromised in a security breach. The password manager maker detailed in a blog post that hackers had stolen their internal source code and technical documentation. LastPass is a popular password manager that allows users to store their credentials and personal information in an encrypted vault. It…
Shane Young shares the bad, the good, and the best ways to manage your accounts when it comes to PowerShell, including prompting, plain text variables, hashed files, and his new favorite, Windows Credential Manager.
It is almost impossible to keep track of all of the websites and systems we use in our daily lives; there are different passwords for online banking, social media, email, and Netflix and that is just for the personal accounts we keep. Here are some options for securing your passwords.