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Cisco is still hard-coding passwords into its products (www.thestack.technology)

submitted 2 weeks ago by BrikoX@lemmy.zip to c/cybersecurity@sh.itjust.works

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Static credentials with passwords written into a firewall's code. What could go wrong?

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[–] horse_battery_staple@lemmy.world 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

That layered security should not be assumed though, thus the issue with hard coded passwords on a firewall. I'd understand for a downstream managed switch. Not a firewall though....bad form and lazy implementation. In my opinion.

[–] sylver_dragon@lemmy.world 6 points 2 weeks ago

Ya, absolutely. My point was that, we shouldn't assume that vendors are doing things right all the time. So, it's important to have those layered defense, because vendors do stupid stuff like this.