Lionel is an IT security consultant currently working on contract for a carmanufacturing company in Philadelphia. Lionel has been brought in to asses thecompany’s network security state. This manufacturing company’s network is comprised of one 2003 Active Directory domain. He has been given permission to perform any and all necessary tests against the network. Lionel interviews the IT staff for the company to get a feel for the logical security measures they have already put in place. The IT manager for the company says that the biggest security precaution they have taken is to rename the administrator account on the network. The manager believes that this will keep any hackers from ever using theadministrator account to perform attacks. Lionel informs the IT manager that while changing the administrator name is a good idea, the account can still possibly be cracked. How can an administrator account still be cracked even though the name has been changed?

A.
The SID for the administrator account does not change.

B.
The administrator name will still be used if connecting through a NULL session.

C.
An administrator account can still be cracked because the GUI for that account does not change when the name itself is changed.

D.
It can still be cracked since the name is still stored in clear text as “administrator” in the local SAM database.