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Ep 13: Carna Botnet

Ep 13: Carna Botnet

Source: YouTube · Jack Rhysider · published Jul 2, 2018 · 33:18

Cybersecurity
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The oldest known computer security vulnerability, dating back to 1969, is the use of weak default passwords like "admin/admin," a widespread flaw that remains a concerning issue decades later 0:13.

Key Takeaways:
• The oldest documented computer vulnerability is weak default passwords, specifically systems shipping with "admin" as both the username and password since 1969 0:13.
• A primary reason this vulnerability persists is that many devices fail to prompt users to change these default credentials during the initial setup 0:27.
• Over the decades, this basic oversight has enabled hackers to easily compromise countless systems they did not own 0:37.

Despite over forty years of awareness regarding this security weakness, there remains uncertainty about whether the industry has completely eliminated this fundamental flaw 0:50.

Sources:

  • 0:00 Introduction to the list of known security vulnerabilities
  • 0:13 Identification of weak default passwords originating in 1969
  • 0:27 Lack of forced password changes upon device purchase
  • 0:37 Hackers exploiting default admin credentials
  • 0:50 Questioning if the vulnerability still exists today

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JACK: [MUSIC] There’s a big list of all known 
security vulnerabilities for computers. You want to know what the oldest known computer 
vulnerability is? The oldest I could find is weak default passwords. This has been a 
known vulnerability since 1969. Specifically, computers sometimes have the username admin 
with the password also admin. Then the computer doesn’t ask you to change it when you buy 
it, so it can stay that way for a long time, years. Many computers after that also use 
admin/admin as the default username and password. Over the years many hackers have been 
able to get into many systems that they didn’t own using this basic username and password. Now it’s 
been forty years since we became aware of this security weakness. Surely by now this weakness 
has been resolved, righ…