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If you are successful you will receive the confirmation message " Your password has been changed.".Click on the Enter arrow located to the right. Click Change a password.Įnter your old password for security purposes, and then type in your new password twice.
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While logged into your Windows Server 2012 domain controller, press Ctrl + Alt + Del keys together on your keyboard to get the security screen. Method 3: Reset Domain Administrator Password Using Ctrl+Alt+Del Screen

To get started, you need to open an elevated Command Prompt. Method 2: Reset Domain Administrator Password from Command Line

Optionally, you can uncheck the " User must change password at next logon" option if needed. In the right pane, right-click the domain administrator account whose password you want to reset, and then click Reset Password.Įnter a new password twice.
#Gmail hack as administrator how to#
“One of the sad part in this research is that, i was not rewarded for such a serious security issue but they acknowledged my research and listed me in Hall of fame,” he noted in his blog outlining his research.As a job role of System Administrator, you should have to know how to reset domain administrator password from command line, PowerShell or a bootable CD, especially if you've forgotten the password. On Nov. 1, Google added the bug to its “Hall of Fame,” according to Mehtab. Mehtab disclosed the bug to Google on Oct. 20. “Once he does that we can hijack his email address easily.” “There is a scenario where attacker can trick victim in deactivating his account or attacker can also trick victim in blocking his email address,” he said. “Any Gmail address which is associated or connected with Gmail’s SMTP was vulnerable to this security issue,” Mehtab wrote.
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Now Mehtab can access that bounce back message and pluck out the verification code number and successfully add the account to his Gmail account. To pull off the hack, Mehtab first went to his Gmail’s Settings menu and selected the “Send Mail As” option and selecting the “Use Gmail to send from your other email addresses” and select “Treat as an alias.” From here, as the video shows, Mehtab forces Google to send a verification email to add the Gmail address to his account to the nonexistent Gmail address that delivers a bounce back email message. In a video, above, Mehtab shows how he was able to trick Google into adding an email account to an existing account. The hack is tied to the way Google handles linking a primary Gmail account to another email address to allow the function of message forwarding and using email aliases. What the attack did not appear to allow Mehtab to do, based on a technical description of the hack posted by Mehtab, is access the contents of the targeted Gmail account or access related Google Account services such as Google Drive, Photos and Play where personal and financial information is stored.

Under these scenarios, Mehtab was able to send email as and confirmed with Threatpost both the vulnerability and fixing the flaw. The Gmail account targeted for hijacking must either be blocking emails sent from the attacker’s account, or be deactivated or be tied to a nonexistent Gmail account. The hack has one big prerequisite, however. In addition, the attacker could have email forwarded to the compromised Gmail address. Mehtab said the attack is “similar to account takeover but here I - as an attacker - can hijack email addresses by confirming the ownership of email (account).” Exploiting the hack, an attacker can send email as if it was being sent from the compromised account. The hack exploits an authentication or verification bypass vulnerability in a Gmail feature that allows you to send email from a second Gmail account. The hack is simple to execute and requires less than dozen steps to pull off. The discovery was made by Ahmed Mehtab, a security researcher and founder of Security Fuse. Google patched a hole in its Gmail verification system last week that allowed an attacker to hijack a targeted Google Gmail account.
