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Researcher Scans All IP Addresses of Austria, Finds a Ton of Things That Shouldn't Be Online (haschek.at)

Posted by msmash on from the how-about-that dept.

Christian Haschek scanned the entire Austrian IP space and found IP cameras, printers, and industrial control systems and a range of other devices that should not be online.

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  1. Re:dotted triple by angel'o'sphere · · Score: 4, Insightful

    FYI: in Europe we use periods instead of commas to visually separate long integer numbers into groups of 3 ... a no brainer if you had looked closely and seen he made the "same mistake" twice.

    American way: 1,000,000
    European way: 1.000.000

    Simple, isn't it?

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  2. Pffft Only one country? by complete+loony · · Score: 4, Interesting

    At a defcon talk in 2014 (talk slides) they scanned the whole IPv4 space live, looking for VNC instances. At least, anything that responded to a SYN packet.

    Then they took a couple months to connect to each VNC instance, if no password was required, grab a screen shot.

    Leading to a series of talks of things that shouldn't be on the internet.

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    09F91102 no, 455FE104 nope, F190A1E8 uh-uh, 7A5F8A09 that's not it, C87294CE no. Ah! 452F6E403CDF10714E41DFAA257D313F.