The US needed to smuggle Stuxnet in, but with networking equipment there's a treasure trove of shitty practices. Cisco and Juniper have been caught hiding hard-coded password how many times now?
Never heard of show before I will however now seek to watch.
For Cisco they literally keep doing it year after year. They are like the Boeing of the IT world. Its unbelievable how they are still in business and growing...and then people worry about Mythos… :-))
Even Bruce Schneier said that Cisco products have had hard-coded passwords made public repeatedly, and "you'd think it would learn.": https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2023/10/cisco-cant-st...
Cisco your core vendor...this is way the CEO earns the big bucks...
2010 (CVE-2010-1574): Cisco IE3000 switches shipped with hard-coded SNMP community names public and private.
2017 (CVE-2017-3834): Cisco Aironet 1830/1850 Mobility Express had default credentials that could let an unauthenticated remote attacker take control of the device.
2017 (CVE-2017-6689): Cisco Elastic Services Controller had a default weak hard-coded password for the admin user in the ConfD CLI.
2017 (CVE-2017-12317): Cisco AMP for Endpoints used a static key to protect the connector password
2018 (CVE-2018-0141): Cisco Prime Collaboration Provisioning 11.6 had a hard-coded SSH account password that could allow local access to the underlying Linux OS.
2018 (CVE-2018-0150): Cisco IOS XE had an undocumented privilege-15 account with a default username and password, allowing unauthenticated remote administrative access.
2018 (CVE-2018-15389): Cisco Prime Collaboration Provisioning’s install flow could leave a default hard-coded web admin username/password in place.
2019 (Cisco advisory; credential issue documented in the advisory): Cisco Small Business RV160/RV260/RV340 firmware images were found to contain undocumented accounts and hardcoded password hashes
2021 (CVE-2021-34795): Cisco Catalyst PON ONT devices had a default Telnet credential vulnerability when Telnet was enabled.
2021 (CVE-2021-34757 / CVE-2021-34744): Cisco Business 220 Smart Switches had a static-password issue and a static-key issue
2023 (CVE-2023-20101): Cisco Emergency Responder shipped with static root credentials that could not be changed or deleted, enabling unauthenticated remote login.
2024 (CVE-2024-20412): Cisco Firepower Threat Defense for Firepower 1000/2100/3100/4200 had static accounts with hard-coded passwords
And Juniper? And Fortinet ? Yeap...Our CEOs earn big bucks too...
- Juniper
2015 (CVE-2015-7755 / CVE-2015-7756): Juniper disclosed unauthorized code in ScreenOS that enabled unauthorized remote administrative access and, separately, VPN traffic decryption on affected versions.
2017 (CVE-2017-2343): Juniper SRX Integrated UserFW had hardcoded credentials in its authentication API.
2019 (CVE-2019-0020): Juniper ATP shipped with hard-coded credentials in the Web Collector instance.
2019 (CVE-2019-0030): Juniper ATP used DES with a hardcoded salt for password hashing
- Fortinet
2016 (CVE-2016-1909): FortiOS, FortiAnalyzer, FortiSwitch, and FortiCache had an undocumented Fortimanager_Access account with a hardcoded SSH passphrase.
2019 (CVE-2019-6698): FortiRecorder set a hardcoded admin password on managed FortiCameras.
2019 (CVE-2019-6693): FortiOS / FortiManager / FortiAnalyzer used a hard-coded cryptographic key for sensitive config data
2020 (CVE-2019-16153): FortiSIEM had hard-coded PostgreSQL credentials in its database component.
Did you mean to include the Juniper CVE's? In my experience, all vendors are constantly remediating CVE's. I wonder if Cisco has the most vulnerabilities discovered because they also have the most users, largest product offering, highest inventory, etc?
I've had a hell of a time patching Palo Alto's and Fortigates, too. Critical CVEs, day-one RCE attacks. It seems more profitable to rush out new code / new products, and just address vulns as they appear, rather than spending extra development time hardening the software.
Same goes obviously for ie Chinese stuff, but I don't think you guys realize how for outsider the border between China and US in terms of morality is practically non-existent now. I don't mean it in any snarky way, just looking at facts.
Also, China doesn't invade countries half around the world and bring them to utter destruction and misery for generations to come, killing thousands to millions of civilians and creating breeding grounds for things like ISIS. They do their own thing, quietly and patiently, with laser focus and for outsiders its at most 'not great not terrible' category.
Here are a list of things that definitely don't fall under 'not great not terrible' category:
Great Leap Forward - estimated 15 million to 55 million people death
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Leap_Forward#Deaths_by_f...
One-child policy
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_child_policy
Tiananmen Square protests
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1989_Tiananmen_Square_protests...
People's Republic of China annexation of Tibet
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annexation_of_Tibet_by_the_Peo...
Support of Khmer Rouge
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khmer_Rouge#Number_of_deaths
Uyghurs in China - est. ≥1 million detained
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persecution_of_Uyghurs_in_Chin...
Leaders of countries which want to do business with China, most countries in the world, have to talk only very quietly about these "sensitive issues", or better not mention them at all.
Oh and Nokia of course but Europe is just as bad as China in the conservative mind...
> MikroTik products are manufactured in many countries: china, lithuania, latvia, malaysia, vietnam.
Selling cars, worldwide, made sense when they weren't always connected to the mother land. Germans selling you a BMW in the 80s? You've got the key: you turn the key. They couldn't turn off all the BMWs if suddenly the US were to be at war with Germany again.
But this madness of cars receiving OTA updates and remote subscriptions and whatnots?
Imagine an enemy country using zero-days to track a military leader via their personal device(s), then disabling their smart civilian vehicle they use to commute to work. Final leg is they had previously parked drones along their expected commute routes for just such an occasion and..
edit: see interesting hypothetical future war series on YT, specifically this bit.. https://youtu.be/drr7mmibt9E?t=157
Ah, think about it, the luxury of owning your own car, you and only you. I can almost imagine it. The future, its bright.
Doing business with the enemy always comes with a risk. For countries that don't build their own networking equipment (including the PCBs and chips), you have to accept some level of risk or you have to avoid such technology all together.
Or indeed with allies, as Europe is just finding out...
Heavily sanctioned countries like Afghanistan and Iran have one thing going for them, and that's that they can't easily build a dependence on foreign technology (though not having such technology at all is arguably just as bad).
Also that is an "eventual problem".
The era of smart everything exposes you to pinpoint time/place/person disablement by the enemy.
The philosophy and structure we rest on is much more precarious than our technologies.