Counter Hack Reloaded: A Step-by-Step Guide to Computer Attacks and Effective Defenses, Second Edition

¹ Named pipes are mechanisms that enable network processes to access objects independently of the objects’ paths. In UNIX FIFOs (first in, first outs) are examples of named pipes.

² A utility in the Windows 2000 Resource Kit, Passprop.exe, enables the default Administrator account to be locked when the criterion number of bad logon attempts is reached, provided that at least one other, nondisabled account with Administrator privileges exists. Passprop.exe works only when logon attempts are remote, not local. The Windows 2000 version of Passprop.exe works both under Windows 2000 and Windows XP. Also note that this difficult-to-locate file is found in the netmgmt.cab file in the Windows 2000 Resource Kit.

¹ In fact, several researchers discovered ...