229212 Resource 188081 21 21 1237907291700 1237908143942 Controlled Beef up those root passwords!

For those of you that run servers (or even your own workstations or laptops), make sure your adminstrative logins haves strong passwords.

<p>I just ran across <a href="http://threatpost.com/blogs/researchers-unveil-persistent-bios-attack-methods" target="_blank" title="Researches unveil BIOS attack methods">this article</a> that describes how researchers have discovered (and documented) a way to inject nefarious code into a computer in such a way that:</p> <ul> <li>avoids anti-virus detection</li> <li>does not rely on a vulnerability exploit</li> <li>survives hard disk formatting (or even replacement)</li> </ul> <p>All an attacker needs to accomplish this is root access to the machine... that is, you administrative account password.</p> <p>So, make sure you're machine passwords are strong!<br /></p> 9 application/xml BIOS attack password security March 19, 2009 | threadpost http://threatpost.com/blogs/researchers-unveil-persistent-bios-attack-methods false Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.4; en-US; rv:1.9.0.7) Gecko/2009021906 Firefox/3.0.7 127.0.0.1 127.0.0.1 aseidl 68.40.167.222 229130 false true false false true 188081 blog blogsite/FASeidl/moderated