Protection from Hackers

From: Carl Hilton (noone@nospam.com)
Date: 11/29/02 

From: "Carl Hilton" <noone@nospam.com>
Date: Fri, 29 Nov 2002 14:14:19 -0500

I saw a demo of a bootable floppy that launched into LINUX then the user was
able to reset the Administrator Password on the NT boot drive. Now I know
that one aspect of NT security is to rename the Administrator account, but
this program showed ALL accounts and you could select which to change....
How can we protect ourselves from this type of breach?

Carl

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