Enumerating via defaults

This subject drives me bonkers; it makes me want to pull out my hair, thinking about how naive people are out there. In 2015, CNN released a study showing 90% of the credit card readers out there use the same password. It's the default one – it's either 166816 or z 66816. Now… don't rush to your bank or ATM to see if that password works. That's not our purpose. The point is, there are these types of vulnerabilities.

This is our biggest security issue because defaults exist everywhere. I love the phrase complacency will be your downfall. I know we have tons of devices and technology out there being thrown at us – servers, desktops, routers, tablets, phones, switches, Wi-Fi, and so on. The demand is always there in getting it set up and getting it done fast. Sometimes, we have the issue where devices get deployed with our default passwords or default user accounts. Every device out there has them because you must go...