Half a Million IoT Device Passwords Published

Schneier on Security 2020-01-22

Summary:

It's a list of easy-to-guess passwords for IoT devices on the Internet as recently as last October and November. Useful for anyone putting together a bot network: A hacker has published this week a massive list of Telnet credentials for more than 515,000 servers, home routers, and IoT (Internet of Things) "smart" devices. The list, which was published on a...

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https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2020/01/half_a_million_.html

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Tags:

botnets

Authors:

Bruce Schneier

Date tagged:

01/22/2020, 11:25

Date published:

01/22/2020, 07:09