Digital signs left wide open with default password
One thing the world doesn’t need: hackers who can broadcast to billboards of any size, be they PC monitor- or Godzilla-sized. Continue reading Digital signs left wide open with default password
Category Archives: default-password
IoT Botnets Found Using Default Credentials for C&C Server Databases
Not following cybersecurity best practices could not only cost online users but also cost cybercriminals. Yes, sometimes hackers don’t take best security measures to keep their infrastructure safe.
A variant of IoT botnet, called Owari, that relies on… Continue reading IoT Botnets Found Using Default Credentials for C&C Server Databases
2 million lines of source code left exposed by phone company EE
What should be secret AWS and API keys were (un)secured with the default password credentials: “admin” as the name, “admin” for a password. Continue reading 2 million lines of source code left exposed by phone company EE
How long would it take to brute force an 11 character single-case alphanumeric password?
My previous home wifi router’s WPA2 password was permanently fixed to FZ4HBCKHGC8.
How long would it take to crack via brute force?
Or more pragmatically:
How long would it take to exhaust all possible iterations of this… Continue reading How long would it take to brute force an 11 character single-case alphanumeric password?
How dangerous is an unsecured printer to a network?
I have booted up a brand new printer and me being curious I checked out it’s web-interface by typing its IP address in the URL. Poking around, I notice a few things.
There is no password set for administrator account. I can… Continue reading How dangerous is an unsecured printer to a network?
IoT devices with public IP?
My understanding of worms like Mirai is the following:
Try to telnet/ssh into random IPs using default user/pass credentials from various router/IoT manufacturers
If you get in, do Bad Things™.
It seems the targets are ge… Continue reading IoT devices with public IP?
Calculating permutations of a hexadecimal character set [closed]
How long would it take to run through all permutations/combinations of a ten character set; assuming the character-set is limited to a hexadecimal alphabet? (i.e. 16 characters {0..9}{A..F}; eg. A1B2C3D4E5 or A7454F4F74).
I’m not sure o… Continue reading Calculating permutations of a hexadecimal character set [closed]
Danger of default router password
How bad is it to not change the default home router password? Are there any concrete dangers?
Are there any attacks directly resulting out of the use of default passwords, not vulnerabilities in the firmware?[*]
You can ass… Continue reading Danger of default router password