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| 121493 | 2003-02-15 07:41:00 | You my want to know? you my not to . 1: Windows XP, which has been marketed by Microsoft as "the most secure version ever," has been found to have a flaw so bone-headed that it renders passwords ineffective as a means of keeping people out of your PC . Anyone with a Windows 2000 CD can boot up a Windows XP box and start the Windows 2000 Recovery Console, a troubleshooting program . Windows XP then allows the visitor to operate as Administrator without a password, even if the Administrator account has a strong password . The visitor can also operate in any of the other user accounts that may be present on the XP machine, even if those accounts have passwords . Unbelievably, the visitor can copy files from the hard disk to a floppy disk or other removable media - something even an Administrator is normally prevented from doing when using the Recovery Console . 2: The FBI has warned American hackers not to launch cyber attacks against Washington's foes . An alert by the FBI's National Infrastructure Protection Center (NIPC) warned that "patriotic hacking" was a crime and could even backfire . 3: Security firm Symantec withheld information about at least one big cyberthreat for hours after spotting it, possibly harming millions of Internet users . Symantec claims to have identified the Slammer worm that ravaged the Internet during the last weekend of January hours before anyone else did . Symantec then shared the information only with select customers, leaving the rest of the global community to get slapped around by Slammer . |
BootyLicious (526) | ||
| 121494 | 2003-02-15 08:06:00 | Most interesting! Is there a good website with more info on that XP and 2000 thing. Maybe I should get hold of a 2000 recovery console. Inter alia might be able to get my XP working a bit more usefully than it does now. |
rugila (214) | ||
| 121495 | 2003-02-15 08:12:00 | This is where i got the Info: www.ntfs.org | BootyLicious (526) | ||
| 121496 | 2003-02-15 08:12:00 | more info here (www.briansbuzz.com). i havn't looked yet so view at your own risk as always ;-) | tweak'e (174) | ||
| 121497 | 2003-02-15 13:21:00 | Hence the reason why you DON'T store stuff that you don't want people to view in an easily accessibly place. Once they've got through the admin password they'll then move onto the encyption that you've used on the files. Ofcourse they originally had to get into the building and find the room with the computer. |
-=JM=- (16) | ||
| 121498 | 2003-02-15 21:12:00 | I have an XP system and I have a few files that I want to keep very safe so I have used "drive-crypt" and then I do backups to CD every week. I dont trust MS for any security related things. I dont trust any OS based password system to keep my files safe, this includes linux mostly because I dont know exactly how it keeps files protected from other users. |
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