Event Viewer -- Failure Audit 627, Attempt to Change Password

[Guest]

Hi all,

Ran the Event Viewer this morning (don't do this very often),
and noticed that there are many Failure Audits having ID=627,
SE_AUDITID_USER_PWD_CHANGED. These are run from my machine,
having User IDs

[my machine name]\SUPPORT_388945a0
[my machine name]\HelpAssistant
[my machine name]\ASPNET

and one SUCCESS AUDIT for user

[my machine name]\Guest

One thing to note is that I had just run the MS Baseline Security
Analyzer 2 from the MS website.

The associated Help topic states:
....
User Action
If a single account has several password-change failures logged, it might be
under a password-guessing attack. Verify that such an attack is not
occurring. Otherwise, no user action is required.

If a single account has several password-change attempts logged, the user
might be trying to circumvent password-history policy.
....


Thanks,
Chris

 

[Guest]

Hi Chris,
I don't know how you would verify the origin of a password guessing attack
except by running the usual antispyware/virus programs. Howeveer, I did read
somewhere that if you use the welcome screen to log onto your computer it
automatically attempts to log in to each user as standard and is normal
operating procedure. Hope this helps a bit!

JackL

Hi all,

Ran the Event Viewer this morning (don't do this very often),
and noticed that there are many Failure Audits having ID=627,
SE_AUDITID_USER_PWD_CHANGED. These are run from my machine,
having User IDs

[my machine name]\SUPPORT_388945a0
[my machine name]\HelpAssistant
[my machine name]\ASPNET

and one SUCCESS AUDIT for user

[my machine name]\Guest

One thing to note is that I had just run the MS Baseline Security
Analyzer 2 from the MS website.

The associated Help topic states:
...
User Action
If a single account has several password-change failures logged, it might be
under a password-guessing attack. Verify that such an attack is not
occurring. Otherwise, no user action is required.

If a single account has several password-change attempts logged, the user
might be trying to circumvent password-history policy.
...


Thanks,
Chris

 

[Chris Kinata]

Hi Jack,

Interesting...this is pretty deep stuff for me...thanks.

--Chris