freebsd security - Feb 2009 - OT - Heartland Payment Systems

I came across this today:

http://information-security-resources.com/2009/01/29/did-heartland-ceo-make-insider-trades/

The article discusses some questions about the security breach which occurred 
at Heartland Payment Systems. Among other things, the article says:

?Somehow, these guys went directly to the base level of the machine (to an 
area) that was not part of the file table for the disk?

?Somehow, they got around the operating system."

I'm wondering what is suggested here?

-- 
Janos Dohanics

On Wed, 4 Feb 2009, Janos Dohanics wrote:
 > I came across this today:
 > 
 >
http://information-security-resources.com/2009/01/29/did-heartland-ceo-make-insider-trades/
 > 
 > The article discusses some questions about the security breach which
occurred
 > at Heartland Payment Systems. Among other things, the article says:
 > 
 > ??Somehow, these guys went directly to the base level of the machine (to
an
 > area) that was not part of the file table for the disk??
 > 
 > ??Somehow, they got around the operating system."
 > 
 > I'm wondering what is suggested here?

Apart from poor grammar, to me it suggests that they're trying really 
hard to not reveal which version of Windows they're running ..

Ian