{"id":446,"date":"2009-02-04T17:25:08","date_gmt":"2009-02-04T17:25:08","guid":{"rendered":"\/blogs\/news\/archive\/2009\/02\/04\/removing-admin-rights-stymies-92-of-microsoft-s-bugs.aspx"},"modified":"2009-02-04T17:25:08","modified_gmt":"2009-02-04T17:25:08","slug":"removing-admin-rights-stymies-92-of-microsoft-s-bugs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/?p=446","title":{"rendered":"Removing admin rights stymies 92% of Microsoft&#039;s bugs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nine of out 10 critical bugs reported by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.computerworld.com\/action\/inform.do?command=search&#038;searchTerms=Microsoft+Corporation\">Microsoft Corp.<\/a> last year could have been made moot, or at least made less dangerous, if people ran Windows without administrative rights, a developer of enterprise rights management software claimed today.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.computerworld.com\/action\/inform.do?command=search&#038;searchTerms=BeyondTrust+Corporation\">BeyondTrust Corp.<\/a>, which touts its Privilege Manager as a way for companies to lock down PCs, tallied the individual vulnerabilities that Microsoft disclosed in 2008, then examined each accompanying security bulletin. If the bulletin&#8217;s &#8220;Mitigating Factors&#8221; section, the part that spells out how to lessen the risk of attack or eliminate it entirely, said that users with fewer rights &#8220;could be less impacted than users who operate with administrative rights,&#8221; BeyondTrust counted the bug.<\/p>\n<p>Full Article &#8211; <a title=\"http:\/\/www.computerworld.com\/action\/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&#038;articleId=9127318&#038;source=rss_topic125\" href=\"http:\/\/www.computerworld.com\/action\/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&#038;articleId=9127318&#038;source=rss_topic125\">http:\/\/www.computerworld.com\/action\/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&#038;articleId=9127318&#038;source=rss_topic125<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nine of out 10 critical bugs reported by Microsoft Corp. last year could have been made moot, or at least made less dangerous, if people ran Windows without administrative rights, a developer of enterprise rights management software claimed today. BeyondTrust Corp., which touts its Privilege Manager as a way for companies to lock down PCs, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[338],"class_list":["post-446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=446"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}