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Windows Vista security: Top 10 tips of 2007

David Nielson, Associate Site Editor
01.08.2008
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Perhaps the biggest thing to come out of Redmond in 2007 was Windows Vista, touted as Microsoft's most secure operating system to date. Over the past year, our experts covered various Vista topics like hacking into Vista to test security, Windows encryption in Vista, User Account Control (UAC), Windows Defender and BitLocker.

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[IMAGE] Secure removable storage devices via Group Policy in Vista
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