Re: Protection from Hackers

From: Pavlov (x@x.com)
Date: 11/29/02 

From: Pavlov <x@x.com>
Date: Fri, 29 Nov 2002 14:30:52 -0600

>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?

Kind of hard to do that. XP Pro has encryption of the FS but I've
never seen it tested against what you're referring to. Which Minix was
this?

- Pavlov

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