There has been some suspicious activity on the system. According to Rogers anyway. He runs the Records department not the IT Department. What does he know? He thinks that the password for Tech1 has been hacked. Unlikely as I used an unbreakable password.
He’s also going on about firewalls and anti-virus software. I don’t know how many times I’ve told him that having a strong password means that a system doesn’t need a firewall or anti-virus software.
Another moan was that the web server isn’t secure (give me a break). And all of the garbage about making sure that Remote Desktop is disabled on all of the accounts is complete and utter rubbish.
I told him, look buddy, I’m Jallard Kane. You know, the guy whose house is full of security awards and what I don’t know about security hasn’t been written yet.
Anyhoo to shut up his moaning I’ve done the following :
- Changed the password of the User ID 1hceT (clever use of words here) to IWishItCouldBeXmasEveryday123 (no one will ever get that).
- Set up the web site on one of our internal systems.
- I also changed his password to something easy to prove the system is really secure and cannot be hacked. Hehe
