I have 2 tablets and a phone and none of them have either the serial # or the MAC address printed on them. This is no longer true for much high-volume consumer hardware. It's only laziness that makes this a problem.
Serial numbers and MACs are already printed onto devices this is a solved problem. Think of those items as the Nutrition Label on boxed foods. * List of all domains:ports required for each network connection * What requires internet connectivity to work IoT that connects to the internet just for tracking needs to be illegal.Ĭomputing devices need to have printed on the box a few things:
IoT belongs on the "guest" network, not your main, safe, network. For some reason, i thought this was legally mandated by California law on. Or just make the password be the first thing input on the device at boot BEFORE it works. Scan the barcode at ROM flash time and testing w/reboot. Print the stickers first w/ a 2d barcode that contains the creds.
This situation is basically no different from serial number stickers being out of sync. There are lots of things that can go wrong during manufacturing, and factories still sort them all out. Manual QA is run on a handful of devices in each batch to double-check. Adding the password as a barcode/QR code and ensuring they match as one of the tests would be no harder. *Note that even the Devil’s Advocate agrees that hard coded credentials are the bane of securityĮvery device is already powered on, flashed, and basic checks run before being packaged, and the serial number barcode scanned if they didn't, there would be an order of magnitude more DOA devices. Obviously you need to verify that the paper and the device match. And you are producing a $Very_Large_Number of devices per day. So now your IoT device credentials and labels are out of sync. So your automated printing press either skips a label or spits out 2 labels at the same time. Dynamically generated username and password for every such device, routers and modems too, set during manufacturing, print out an accompanying label to slap on the device and/or paper insert for the box. Hard-coded login credentials should be illegal. The critical vulnerability received a severity rating of 9.8 out of a possible 10 because of the ease in exploiting it. From there, the attackers were able to take over devices that used easily guessable passwords. The pre-authentication command-injection flaw made it possible to execute commands on the devices.
Attackers were using the exploits to install yet another Mirai variant known as Mukashi, which was recently discovered. Qihoo 360’s report came a day after researchers from security firm Palo Alto Networks reported that a recently fixed vulnerability in network attached storage devices from Zyxel was also under active exploit. The CVE designation used to track vulnerability is unknown. Lilin fixed the flaws in mid-February with the release of firmware 2.0b60_20200207. Seven days after that, the researchers detected Moobot spreading through the use of the FTP vulnerability. That same month, Qihoo 360 reported the flaws to Lilin. In January, the researchers saw attackers exploit the FTP and NTP flaws to spread FBot.
The injected parameters affect the device capabilities for file transfer protocol, network time protocol, and the update mechanism for network time protocol.įurther Reading Record-breaking DDoS reportedly delivered by >145k hacked camerasSometime in late last August, Qihoo 360 researchers started seeing attackers exploit the NTP update vector to infect devices with Chalubo. The bugs are: (1) hard-coded login credentials present in the device, (2) command-injection flaws, and (3) arbitrary file reading weaknesses. The DVR vulnerability stems from three flaws that allow attackers to remotely inject malicious commands into the device. The latter two botnets are spinoffs of Mirai, the botnet that used hundreds of thousand of IoT devices to bombard sites with record-setting amounts of junk traffic. Multiple attack groups are exploiting the Lilin DVR vulnerability to conscript them into DDoS botnets known as FBot, Chalubo, and Moobot, researchers from security firm Qihoo 360 said on Friday. Both DVRs from Lilin and storage devices from Zyxel are affected, and users should install updates as soon as possible. Criminals are exploiting critical flaws to corral Internet-of-things devices from two different manufacturers into botnets that wage distributed denial-of-service attacks, researchers said this week.