How to break into registry to explore HKLM\SAM and HKLM\SECURITY keys

Wednesday, July 16th, 2008

The Registry Editor will not allow you to navigate through HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SAM and HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SECURITY hives. These hives are protected by the System Account and currently logged on user or member of Administrators Group do not have permissions to view them. To view the the registry entries under SAM or SECURITY hive, you ...

Quick Vista Hack to Get You Browsing at High-Speed Again

Thursday, April 17th, 2008

I’m not a Windows Vista fan. In fact, my new PC runs on XP, but uses OpenSource applications for most of my business needs. So why do I even care about a trick to get sluggish Vista browsing back to an acceptable speed? My mom uses Vista, and I love ...

Cisco product shipped with backdoor

Monday, March 17th, 2008

Cisco has reported a critical security hole in CiscoWorks Internetwork Performance Monitor (IPM), the network availability monitoring component of the CiscoWorks LAN Management Solution (LMS). According to the advisory, commands can be executed remotely on the underlying Solaris or Windows operating system without authentication. Cisco reports that the problem is due ...