Writing scripts for remote computer management can save man-hours and shoe leather. But like any part of Windows, it has to be properly secured, or you risk opening up your network to the bad guys.

If you were a hacker and you wanted to take control of systems within a target organization, you might deploy traditional malware. But malicious code can be detected and, as it turns out, you might ...

Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) is a set of extensions to the Windows Driver Model that provides an operating system interface for dealing with platform devices. WMI objects can be embedded ...

Remember that other security mechanisms prevent blatant misuse of WMI. Before you remove groups from WMI permissions, note that the default permissions don’t allow groups other than administrators to ...