Mitch Tulloch is a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional and lead author of the Windows 7 Resource Kit from Microsoft Press. You can follow him on Twitter at ...

Mitch Tulloch is a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional and lead author of the Windows 7 Resource Kit from Microsoft Press. You can follow him on Twitter at ...

Users who run unwanted or dangerous applications can undermine the security of your entire network. With the new AppLocker feature in Windows 7, Microsoft aims to simplify the task of ensuring that ...

For example, you could run this option against a “standard build” desktop if you use such a thing in your organization. So AppLocker isn’t hugely different from Software Restriction Policies, but it ...

Microsoft’s AppLocker, the application control feature included in Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2, is an improvement on the Software Restriction Policies (SRP) introduced with Windows XP ...

A researcher has discovered that Windows’ Regsvr32 can be used to download and run JavaScript and VBScript remotely from the Internet, bypassing AppLocker’s whitelisting protections. A core Windows ...

It so happens that the topic of Whitelists vs. Blacklists comes up a lot when I’m talking to clients. The questions seem to always revolve around the pros and cons between these two methods of ...

Following the December release of the evasi0n jailbreak for iOS 7 devices, several new jailbreak tweaks for the iPhone 5s are in the works, including a newly updated version of AppLocker that is ...

A researcher in Colorado has discovered a feature in Regsvr32 that allows an attacker to bypass application whitelisting protections, such as those afforded by Microsoft’s AppLocker. If the technique ...

Learn how to best employ this Windows feature to lock down desktops. The AppLocker feature in Microsoft Windows 7 Professional lets administrators control which applications and scripts users can ...