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BrutPOS Botnet Targets Retail's Low-Hanging Fruit
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dadsu
dadsu,
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7/16/2014 | 1:07:28 PM
Re: So what is the statistical significance
Yes, and for some reason I thought a security standard was to disable guest accounts and rename "administrator" accounts to something besides administrator or admin....
Sara Peters
Sara Peters,
 User Rank: Author
7/10/2014 | 6:25:02 PM
Re: So what is the statistical significance
@Marilyn   "You would think that the retail industry could do better than allowing these User Ids and passwords these days."  You would, but one thing Joshua Goldfarb pointed out to me was the fact that sometimes these very big retailers have so many POS terminals that it's awfully hard to get every single one right. That said, the password "pos" meets almost NONE of your basic requirements -- only three characters, no numbers, no special characters, no mix of caps and lowercase. It's pitiful.
Marilyn Cohodas
Marilyn Cohodas,
 User Rank: Strategist
7/10/2014 | 12:52:15 PM
Re: So what is the statistical significance
The most common username used by the breached systems was "administrator." The most common passwords were "pos" and "Password1."

You would think that the retail industry could do better than allowing these User Ids and passwords these days. 

 
Sara Peters
Sara Peters,
 User Rank: Author
7/10/2014 | 9:46:16 AM
Re: So what is the statistical significance
@progman2000  The attackers were scanning 57 IP address ranges, 32 of which are located in the U.S. So it still looks like the US's were easier to break into than other countries'. But Goldfarb was hesitant to speculate on why that is, because they didn't have more information. It's possible that most of the usernames/passwords used for brute-forcing were in English, or simply that American companies still struggle with bad passwords and bad password management.
progman2000
progman2000,
 User Rank: Apprentice
7/9/2014 | 9:21:12 PM
So what is the statistical significance
of 51 of the 60 compromised systems being in the US?  Are these things primarily scanning US addresses?  Are they equally scanning other countries but US has more electronic POS?  More vulnerable POS?


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