Re:The Mirai Botnet Is Proof the Security Industry Is Broken
by pbhjpbhj on Tuesday November 01, 2016 @08:31PM
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>Its a failure in the development industry to have basic security awareness. //
Is that really it? Surely even a high-school level developer will realise that having a device connected to the wild web with a default user:pass will be hacked easily.
I'd have thought the problem is not wanting to support customer calls saying "we changed the password and now can't access our device". So default user:pass and no prompt to change it (and a backdoor just in case) means lower support costs.
Is that really it? Surely even a high-school level developer will realise that having a device connected to the wild web with a default user:pass will be hacked easily.
I'd have thought the problem is not wanting to support customer calls saying "we changed the password and now can't access our device". So default user:pass and no prompt to change it (and a backdoor just in case) means lower support costs.