http://angelsofsecurity.com/blog Musings of an infosec renegade Tue, 02 Aug 2011 19:01:53 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://angelsofsecurity.com/blog/2009/10/27/windows-7-password-policy/ http://angelsofsecurity.com/blog/2009/10/27/windows-7-password-policy/#comments Tue, 27 Oct 2009 15:31:30 +0000 admin http://angelsofsecurity.com/blog/?p=530 I’ve been using Windows 7 fairly regularly on one of my machines for the past month or so. One thing I noticed is that the default password settings for Windows 7 include the fact that password expire after 42 days. Since most home users will never change their default settings, this setting will likely become a de-facto standard. However, the default settings also have a password history of zero (no remembered passwords), and a minimum age of zero as well. This means that every home user, when prompted to change their password, will simply change it to the password they had initially, making this setting useless.

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