Microsoft has made the life of system admins and IT admins a bit easier. The company recently announced that it had quietly made welcome changes to the way the AppLocker app control policies worked.

In the absence of many dramatically new product announcements (notices about the Office 2010 technical preview and Windows Mobile 6.5 were already expected), it was Senior Vice President Bill Veghte's ...

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 ...

North Korea's Lazarus hackers exploited a Windows AppLocker driver zero-day to gain kernel-level access and turn off security tools that could detect the group's bring-your-own-vulnerable-driver ...

Ransomware is one of the biggest threats to an organization's data. All it takes is one user to click on a malicious link or open an infected email attachment, and the attacker can encrypt all the ...

Malicious Trojans continue to plague end-users’ desktops, yet most machines aren’t exploited due to missing patches (although this is the second biggest cause), unpatched zero days (almost never a ...

Tech pro ThioJoe demonstrates how AppLocker can be used to significantly strengthen Windows security against unauthorized apps. Maria Bartiromo let go from Fox after leaking to White House: report ...

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 ...

Windows only: If you need to prevent an application from running accidentally or would like to disable an application you can't uninstall, AppLocker provides a simple interface to do so. Whether you'd ...

An update to Software Restriction Policies Among many other new goodies, Windows Server 2008 R2 brings us “AppLocker,” which is a re-branding of the Software Restriction Policies feature that’s been ...