bugtraq - Re: Insufficient Authentication vulnerability in Asus notebook

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Date: Thu, 14 May 2009 12:39:29 -0700
From: Susan Bradley <sbradcpa@...bell.net>
To: my.security.lists@...il.com
Cc: MustLive <mustlive@...security.com.ua>, bugtraq@...urityfocus.com
Subject: Re: Insufficient Authentication vulnerability in Asus notebook

We're talking XP Home here, right?  A admin account without a password 
cannot be access remotely over the internet, so if you have physical 
access at all times of that Asus netbook it's arguably more secure in 
some circumstances.

nameless wrote:
> Susan Bradley wrote:
>   
>> 3.  For XPs it's kinda handy to have a blank admin password when you
>> sometimes come in on a network and need to get to that particular
>> machine and you didn't set it up, otherwise you have to use the Admin
>> password boot disk trick and reset the password to blank.
>>     
>
> You should only do the above recommendation, if you like to have your
> boxes owned.
>
> You should not have any administrative accounts named "Administrator"
> and _all_ administrative accounts should have a _STRONG_ password
> associated with them.
>
> No exceptions.
>
> Password safes are available at no charge.  If you somehow forget your
> password, you can always reset it via AD or resetting the SAM.
>
>
>