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TechNet Webcast: User Account Control (Level 200)
White Papers This webcast provides an in-depth look at the capabilities and benefits of the Windows User Account Control (UAC) feature in Windows Vista. The webcast shows how the UAC helps to minimize exposure and reduce the attack surface of the operating...
[November 24, 2006, 0:00]
User Account Control Demo
White Papers This webcast is a demonstration of User Account Control (UAC).
[December 8, 2006, 0:00]
User Account Control Application Compatibility Toolkit
White Papers The presenter of this webcast shows the viewer how to secure the application under User Account Control (UAC).
[December 8, 2006, 0:00]
Windows Vista Feature Focus: User Account Control
White Papers The main new feature in this category is called User Account Control (UAC, previously called User Account Protection and Limited User Account). Now, even administrators will typically run most applications and system services with Standard User...
[November 23, 2006, 0:00]
User Account Control Overview
White Papers User Account Control offers a new approach to improving computer security, by fundamentally changing the way applications interact with an operating system and its files. When running in standard user mode, organizations and users are less likely...
[December 6, 2006, 0:00]
TechNet Webcast: User Account Control Internals and Impact on Malware (Level 400)
White Papers Windows Vista introduces a new feature, User Account Control (UAC) that enables users to run applications without administrator rights. The presenter of this webcast detail the internal implementation of UAC, including file system and registry...
[August 31, 2007, 1:00]
MSDN Webcast: Best Practices for User Account Control in Windows Vista (Level 200)
White Papers This webcast explores Windows User Account Control (UAC), a new security feature in the Windows Vista operating system and explains how User Account Control reduces the security exposure and the attack surface of the operating system by running...
[December 8, 2006, 0:00]
TechNet Webcast: Limiting Administrator Privileges With User Account Control (UAC) in Windows Vista (Level 200)
White Papers User Account Control (UAC) in Microsoft Windows Vista helps solve this problem by allowing standard user accounts to perform common tasks like adding printers and changing the time zone, while also improving application compatibility.
[September 8, 2006, 0:00]
Achieve the Non-Admin Dream With User Account Control
White Papers But while IT administrators generally agree that restricting users to a standard user account is the way to go, about 80 percent deploy their desktops with admin accounts, making those machines more susceptible to malware and harder to manage.
[December 6, 2006, 0:00]
Windows Vista Application Development Requirements for User Account Control Compatibility
White Papers This white paper is intended to assist application developers with designing Windows Vista capable applications that are User Account Control compliant. This paper also details the technical updates and changes to the user experience in Windows Vista.
[November 17, 2006, 0:00]
Teach Your Apps to Play Nicely With Windows Vista User Account Control
White Papers The primary goal of User Account Control (UAC) is to make the default user token that applications are run with mimic that of a member of the Users group. When more privileges are necessary to execute a restricted operation, the user will be...
[December 16, 2006, 0:00]
Getting Started With User Account Control on Windows Vista
White Papers User Account Control (UAC) is a new security component of the Microsoft Windows Vista operating system. A standard user account is synonymous with a user account in Windows XP. User accounts that are members of the local Administrators group will...
[December 6, 2006, 0:00]
Understanding User Account Control in Vista
White Papers If an individual has not looked at Microsoft Vista yet, there is still a great chance that he will have heard something about User Account Control (UAC) at some point. This paper explains what User Account Control (UAC) is and what it is not.
[November 15, 2006, 0:00]
Experts: Windows 7 security tool still a concern
News Windows 7 users are still at risk of getting hit by malware, despite changes in the User Account Control (UAC) feature designed to help people be smarter when using applications, security experts have said.
[October 23, 2009, 12:35]
Microsoft: Users confused by Vista UAC prompts
News Scott Charney, head of trustworthy computing at Microsoft, admitted this week that Windows Vista's User Account Control prompts are not intuitive and confuse users. In a video interview with ZDNet.com.au at the AusCERT2008 conference this week...
[May 23, 2008, 10:13]
Code aims to bypass UAC security in Windows 7
News A pair of investigators say they have found a way to bypass the User Account Control feature in Microsoft's Windows 7 beta. User Account Control (UAC) is a Windows security feature, introduced in Vista, that checks whether a user really intends to...
[February 2, 2009, 16:50]
Coders claim bypass of Vista security feature
News Software developers from NeoSmart, a not-for-profit technology-development organisation, claim they have successfully bypassed User Account Control, a security feature in Windows Vista. Critics, however, have said that, by coding around User...
[April 28, 2008, 15:17]
Microsoft touts Windows 7 security enhancements
News Windows 7 makes remote connectivity to corporate networks seamless, protects data on thumb drives, and offers fewer user-account-control prompts to bug users compared to Vista, Microsoft said on Monday.
[April 21, 2009, 9:19]
Microsoft to tweak Windows 7 settings
News Microsoft has said that it will make changes to the way the User Account Control security feature works in Windows 7. Microsoft initially downplayed the risks and defended its choices around the User Account Control (UAC) feature.
[February 6, 2009, 12:07]
Security firm exposes massive crimeware server
News A Trojan horse command-and-control server discovered in June contained 50GB of stolen user account and financial details, including 9,000 bank and credit-card account credentials from around the world and 463,582 user account passwords, according...
[August 8, 2008, 15:44]
