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Equifax Had 'Admin' as Login and Password in Argentina (bbc.com)
Reader wired_parrot writes: The credit report provider Equifax has been accused of a fresh data security breach, this time affecting its Argentine operations. The breach was revealed after security researchers discovered that an online employee tool used by Equifax Argentina was accessible using the "admin/admin" password combination.
This needs to be treated and punished the same as intent.
Most ACs are not even worth the keystrokes to insult them. Be generically insulted by this and ignored otherwise.
I mean we all know there is no such thing as 100% safe in information security but this is not even trying..
Nonsense. We have the Cloud now, so it's totally cool to use default or easily guessable passwords.
Some of them conveniently sold their stock the day before the big announcement... but of course they had no idea about the breach.
I refuse to believe in this timeline. This is a special abstract kind of hell. How much do you think the people that came up with this system were paid?
You are right to disbelieve. The world actually ended in 2012, just like the Mayan prophecy said. We have been living in a post apocalyptic nightmare inside the minds of the old ones ever since.
Why does equipment even have a default user/password?
It simply should not function until you have changed/set it.
Cost free eBook I read (by iBook/Kobo/Amazon/ObookO/Gutenberg etc.): "The Green Odyssey" by Philip Jose Farmer.