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In a hacking group I'm part of, we had an address that ended up being a passwordless VNC to what looked like a centrifuge controller. It was at a place whose IP
by crankylinuxuser 7y ago
In a hacking group I'm part of, we had an address that ended up being a passwordless VNC to what looked like a centrifuge controller. It was at a place whose IP tracked to CERN.
We reported it as fast as we fucking could. It took about 6 hrs for them to get it off the public internet with no password.
- toomuchtodo 7y agoThank you for reporting this!
- crankylinuxuser 7y agoWe do what we can. From our assessment, it looks like that was a complete mistake. And those do indeed happen. But what if someone were to have found it and were malicious, and started randomly mashing buttons? That's why our jobs as sysads are never done. We occasionally do boneheaded stuff. Users also do. And so do contractors. And I'll do what I can when I see something wrong. Professional courtesy.