Friday, January 19, 2018

Unbeleivable - Oman's stock exchange had both its username and password as "admin"



For several months, Oman's stock exchange, one of the largest stock exchanges in the Middle East, was reportedly vulnerable to hacking

ZDNet reported that a security researchers found that a primary Huawei router for Oman's stock exchange had both its username and password as "admin".

It is not uncommon for many routers to have the same username and password combination set as default. However, unless manually changed, leaving the combination as is, would reportedly allow hackers to gain administrator privileges, which in turn would give them complete control over the device.

The vulnerable router's IP address buried in a list of Telnet credentials that were leaked last year

For More:
http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/security-gaffe-left-omans-stock-exchange-vulnerable-hackers-months-1655820

No comments:

Post a Comment