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(#3) Security Policies Tip: Security breaches

By Tertius Genis
18 Jan 2002 | SearchSecurity

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Tertius Genis' Security Policies Tip on page file breaches received a user rating of 4.83. Do you have a tip of your own on a particular security vulnerability? Submit it to searchSecurity.

The tip discusses one way that security breaches can happen -- through the page file -- and how to avoid them. The page file, a hidden file called pagefile.sys, is the one your computer uses to page out programs and/or data to hard disk when memory resources are getting low. But the page file leads to a serious problem.

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