Hacker Gary McKinnon's top tips on how to protect your network
Gary McKinnon, who is fighting extradition to the US to face hacking charges, offers CIOs and network administrators a few words of advice on network protection.
The advice is based on his own experiences of unauthorised access to US federal, defence and space systems.
1. Make sure your PCs run only in business hours, ie. 9 to 5.
2. Do not have blank or default passwords for local administrator privileges.
3. If you set up a password on a PC for a local administrator, make sure each PC has a different password for that administrator.
4. Do not put unprotected files on the network that describe what each machine on the network does.
5. Do not use Netbios over TCP/IP.
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