Re: Need some help with management

["Elazar Broad" <elazar () hushmail com>]

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Yup, CCEs and default configurations/passwords are definitely quite
common. The folks over at gnucitizen have been hitting on this for
some time with their work on the bt home hub...

Elazar

On Fri, 23 May 2008 12:16:45 -0400 Paul Schmehl
<pschmehl_lists () tx rr com> wrote:
> --On Friday, May 23, 2008 11:56:15 -0400 Elazar Broad
> <elazar () hushmail com>
> wrote:
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> > Its not even funny how often this happens. I have a friend who
> does
> > some consulting work for small businesses, and the amount of
> times
> > that he has come across medical practices that run their billing
> > and record keeping software on the same "fully-loaded" XP box
> that
> > their receptionist(s) use to download random crap...
>
> Typical scenario - professor runs Windows XP with Skpe and Google
> Toolbar and a
> host of other "helpful" desktop applications - oh, but that's his
> "server" too
> - running IIS and mysql - default installs, mind you - replete
> with cross-site
> scripting and sql injection problems - and all his research with
> no backups -
> and then gets irate because his computer gets blocked at the
> switch port for
> policy violations.
>
> I could go on, but you get the idea.
>
> Why do they do it?  Because they can - at least until we catch
> them.
>
> How many mysql installs do you think there are worldwide,
> listening on the
> default port, with "root@localhost", "root@FQHN", "@localhost" and
> "@FQHN" all
> in the default state with no password?
>
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> Paul Schmehl
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