Comment about: The Danger of Strong Passwords that are Easy-to-remember
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| March 24, 2009 | | For those of you that run servers (or even your own workstations or laptops), make sure your adminstrative logins haves strong passwords. | I just ran across this article that describes how researchers have discovered (and documented) a way to inject nefarious code into a computer in such a way that:
- avoids anti-virus detection
- does not rely on a vulnerability exploit
- survives hard disk formatting (or even replacement)
All an attacker needs to accomplish this is root access to the machine... that is, you administrative account password.
So, make sure you're machine passwords are strong!
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