RussianFirm wrote:
Hello, one of our workers complained that someone hacked into his Win 2000 machine, which is double password protected. They got into his email account, and placed his private mail into a text file. I was surprised. I didn't even know it was possible to break into someones email account. Cookies???
Now I'm concerned. I use SuSE Linux. What stops someone from popping in the SuSE CD, go into rescue mode, deleting my root password, then enter into my computer as root!?! From what I've read on the thread, this does not seem too difficult. And our company has more than a few top notch Russian programmers.
Nothing will stop anybody that gains physical access to a whats-o-ever machine. To make it harder, disable CDROM / DISK boot, use the lilo password, use a boot password / password BIOS protection and if possible get a solid lock to prevent people from unscrewing the case. While you on it, fix the machine (like laptops sometimes) with a solid steel cable and lock to a solid place in the building. This will not prevent anything, but make it harder. Juergen PS: Since I discussed the theft of an laptop last weekend we raised the question about encrypted file systems. How far are these projects progressed?? anybody??
George
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