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DOJ quietly removed Russian malware from routers in US homes and businesses (arstechnica.com)

submitted 9 months ago by issue0315@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] IphtashuFitz@lemmy.world 16 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

20+ years ago I managed the installation of a high performance compute cluster purchased from IBM. Their techs did all the initial installation and setup, right down to using their well known default password of “PASSW0RD” (with a zero for the ‘o’) for all root/admin accounts…. It took less than 20 minutes for it to be compromised by an IP address in China.

At least other vendors like HP use random root/admin passwords printed on cards physically attached to new equipment…

[–] AtmaJnana@lemmy.world 11 points 9 months ago (1 children)

When I used to rack and stack servers, many moons ago, we would always connect them to a switch with LAN only so we could use SSH/SCP to harden them before they got exposed. This was for .gov stuff that would get attacked instantly.