Security settings on Windows PCs often have admin rights enabled by default. It makes sense since most normal users shouldn’t need admin rights. However, many standard Windows users will come across ...

For at least 10 years now, security experts have been saying that the No. 1 way to reduce security risks on the local desktop is to prevent users from using admin or root-level accounts when not ...

Never give users more access rights than needed. If you hand out admin privileges like candy, it'll come back to haunt you We’ve all known for a long time that unnecessary use of elevated privileges ...