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Recently the news reported that the social app Houseparty was hacked. One of the details taken by the hackers was user account passwords. This led to a spate of other hackings, due to user passwords being the same for... Read More

When the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) started promoting three random words as passwords, the general public had practical advice that was easy to follow. While it is extremely valuable to provide sound advice for choosing passwords, the perceived... Read More

When employees change their domain passwords, they may still run into issues if their devices have stored old credentials. To avoid login failures and security risks, it’s crucial to reset the cached domain passwords on local machines. Whether employees... Read More

Security is an essential part of almost everything we do with technology today. We unlock devices, sign in to websites, and routinely find ourselves verifying our identity, whether we’re online for work, or personal time. In a business setting,... Read More

Technology is an exciting industry to be in right now as it is constantly growing and evolving. However, it is well known that the tech industry is highly male-dominated and across the years many people have expressed their concern... Read More

Need to manage password expirations for remote users? Here's how you can reset passwords for remote users, and update their locally cached credentials. Read More

In this blog post we will review some common configurations for Specops Password Notification. Password Notification is a tool for configuring and sending password expiration reminders to your users. This tool is especially useful for communicating with remote users... Read More

Stockholm, April 8, 2020 – Specops Software announced today the release of a free version of Specops Password Notification to help address password challenges associated with remote workers. Password Notification enables IT admins to configure password expiration email reminders... Read More

Nearly every organization, large or small has to deal with the problem of employees occasionally forgetting their passwords. Historically, a forgotten password has meant placing a phone call to the helpdesk. However, this tends to be a very poor... Read More

We live in a time where users are working remotely more than ever. This throws IT departments a lot of challenges with regards to support, particularly when it comes to doing it securely. This security challenge has been exacerbated... Read More