Hi,

I'm new here but been browsing.
Right now I'm an IS-assistant at my college. Just the other day, one of my co-worker's computer got hacked into. The hacker was using dameware software, a software that, I believe, uses a similar remote desktop connection that XP has. The ignorant hacker opened up MS WORD and typed..."I'm gonna kill you" ..."Watch your back." This led me to learn more about this software.

I did a little research on the software and actually downloaded it for testing also. I tried to enter one of my co-worker's computer and her computer required log-in and password.

FIY: All of us are in the same network.

Now my question to you guys is "How did he get bypass the log-in and password?"

Please help. I need to learn how to tighten the security and I need to learn how he got through so I can prevent it.

Thanks for any help or suggestions and sorry for the long post.