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Microsoft Blames Adminstrators For Hacking Attacks
News The software giant believes that the hacker -- called Herbless -- was able to gain control of the SQL servers because network administrators had not set a password for administrator access. In mixed mode, an administrator account is created with...
[August 21, 2000, 16:38]
News Burst: Administrators At Fault In SQL Hack, Says Microsoft
News If they do not then hackers could use the default password to gain administrator access. But Microsoft blames administrator error for these attacks on several UK government Internet sites last week. A Microsoft spokesperson has explained that...
[August 21, 2000, 10:30]
Microsoft Get Back To Baseline On Security
News The approach it takes is quite simple-minded -- for the weak password check, for example, it tries logging in with blank, username, "password", "admin" or "Administrator" and reports back if it gets in.
[May 9, 2002, 16:39]
Don't Broadcast Info About Windows Servers To Hackers
News The most common example of this is a user providing his or her username and password over the phone to someone claiming to be a company administrator. Network documentation revealing server names, IP addresses, and even administrator access is...
[January 21, 2003, 8:14]
Security Flaws Found In Cisco IP Phones
News Cisco said because of a design error in the HTTP interface, which allows the device to be managed remotely, an administrator's credentials are saved or cached when the device is accessed remotely. If an administrator never accesses the device via...
[February 22, 2007, 8:22]
Establishing Good Password Policies
White Papers One of the responsibilities of the system administrator is to create a password policy that is appropriate for the users of the network. In order for any user to log in to a FreeBSD system, they need to have a previously created user account and...
[September 25, 2007, 9:02]
Lieberman Software: Wescom Credit Union
White Papers Initially Linnie was impressed with User Manager Pro's ability to change the local administrator password on all of his machines in one operation. With a network of this size and complexity, simple tasks such as updating service account and local...
[June 20, 2007, 1:00]
Security Administrator
Downloads Protect your computer and restrict access to the Internet with Security Administrator. You also can apply password-protection to Windows and restrict users to running specific applications only. You can deny access to each individual component of...
[August 6, 2008, 20:01]
Enterprise Business Solutions: Solving I.T. Challenges For The Finance Industry
White Papers For the computer system administrator of a modern financial network, GLBA represents a real challenge in terms of implementing technology which will add in regulatory compliance. This association continues to develop and the SecureLogin Password...
[September 20, 2005, 3:00]
Advanced Security Administrator
Downloads Protect your computer and restrict access to Internet with Security Administrator. This nice password-protected security utility enables you to impose a variety of access restrictions to protect your privacy and stop others from tampering with your...
[July 7, 2008, 14:52]
Go The Extra Mile -- Secure Windows Admin Account
News The student would have had free rein over the network until the next time the administrator password was changed. Yet the administrator password can be compromised in these environments as well. Even if no one in your office is dishonest enough to...
[February 11, 2003, 10:58]
Keep Your Sensitive Data Secure
News Mike Mullins has served as an assistant network administrator and a network security administrator for the US Secret Service and the Defense Information Systems Agency. Administrator responsibilities Log off or use a screen saver with a password...
[July 6, 2006, 15:35]
Spida Bites Microsoft SQL Servers
News Even though SecurityFocus is currently tracking almost 100 infections per hour, the worm's only way to infect a system is if the Microsoft SQL Server system administrator password is left blank -- which is the default setting.
[May 22, 2002, 10:02]
Al-Jazeera Hacker Awaits Sentence
News Racine, also known as "John Boffo," used a false photo identification card and forged signature to impersonate an Al-Jazeera systems administrator and get control of Al-Jazeera's account, according to the plea agreement.
[June 13, 2003, 9:18]
Security Wake-up Call
News These worms use the default SQL Server system administrator account (sa) with an empty password to infect the system. Protecting the server is simple: Just change the password on your sa account to a strong one and block access to your SQL server...
[February 11, 2003, 9:46]
Don't Let Identity Management Turn Chaotic As Your Business Grows
News Identity management makes the administrator's job easier by providing centralised provisioning (creation and maintenance) and deprovisioning (removal) of user accounts and making it easy to delegate administration over specific accounts to others.
[December 21, 2005, 10:45]
Help & HowTo: Slammer
News Assign a strong systems administrator password. Stinger must be run with administrator privileges to shut down SQL Server. It takes companies anywhere from four to 12 months to apply patches -- the exposure window is far too big," said Viren Mantri...
[January 27, 2003, 10:18]
Alternatives To Windows' Standard Desktop Lockdown Features
News The student's keystroke recorder had stolen the administrator password when the teacher logged in. The teacher logged into the machine using the administrator account, fixed the problem, and didn't think anymore about it.
[May 28, 2003, 11:35]
Hacker School Teaches The Good Guys
News Having won Defcon's "Capture the Flag" hacking tournament for three years running, GhettoHackers has been put in charge of the event this year and must act as its system administrator, keeping the network running despite rampant hacking activity.
[August 6, 2002, 9:33]
The FBI's Top 10 Online Security Threats
News Any administrator without a regular plan for updating this critical tool is making a major mistake. Poor password policies aren't the only weak point in Windows authentication, but they are among the easiest to tackle.
[January 28, 2004, 13:30]
