More than four years ago, Alicia Katz Pollock wrote “Five Ways to Reset a Lost Administrator Password” (17 January 2014), and through the vagaries of Google’s search algorithm, it remains our most ...

Microsoft’s Local Administrator Password Solution (LAPS) enables local admin passwords to be set, reset and validated periodically. Here is how to make the best use of LAPS. Passwords have always been ...

How To Set, Change, and Recover Your MySQL Root Password Your email has been sent If you never set, forgot, or change your MySQL password, you're in luck. This ...

Any fast way to get around touching each machine individually to set/verify the local admin password (either physically going to each machine or connecting through an mmc snap-in)? Still new on site, ...

Researchers at Rapid7 have looked at the security of admin passwords used to protect the two main protocols for remotely accessing corporate networks – and the results aren't great. The two protocols ...

Also, it’s essential to remember that default settings are built for the lowest common denominator. They’re designed to get the average admin and the average user active in the system with the least ...