Re: Protection from Hackers

From: Jeff Cochran (jcochran.nospam@naplesgov.com)
Date: 12/02/02 

From: jcochran.nospam@naplesgov.com (Jeff Cochran)
Date: Mon, 02 Dec 2002 15:35:00 GMT

>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?

Don't let hackers walk in and put floppies in your system. :)

Security doesn't end at the keyboard. The most damaging security
breaches are often your own users, not hackers, and simply locking a
door to the server room will help greatly increase your security.

Jeff

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