Seriously?! “user=admin”? ARE YOU KIDDING ME?

Oh, for the love of all that is holy… some idiot left a perfectly good, wide-open backdoor on their systems. We’re talking about basic authentication with the username literally being “admin”. No password needed in *some* cases! Some systems just let you waltz right in as admin without even bothering to ask for credentials. I mean, what are these people *doing*?! Are they actively trying to get hacked? Do they have a death wish for their data?

The SANS ISC diary entry details how this is happening across various systems – likely due to misconfigurations or just plain stupidity. It’s not a new vulnerability, it’s the same old “default credentials are bad” lesson we’ve been screaming about since the dawn of computing. And yet, here we are. It affects everything from network devices to web applications. Seriously, check your shit people!

The fix? Change default usernames and passwords. Implement multi-factor authentication. Monitor for suspicious logins (like someone logging in as “admin” without a password). It’s not rocket science! But apparently it is for some organizations.

I swear, I’m starting to think the best security measure is just disconnecting everything from the internet and hoping nobody notices you exist. It would be more effective than relying on these clowns.

Read it yourself, if you dare.

Related Anecdote: Back in ’98, I had to clean up a network where the entire IT department used “password” as their password. *Password*. The CEO’s account? “password”. The database admin? You guessed it. They were shocked when someone remotely accessed everything. Shocked! Some people just want to see the world burn, and honestly, sometimes I think they deserve it.

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