The Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT), a part of the Department Of Homeland Security, released an alert this week regarding yet another series of DSL routers that have hard coded userids and passwords. The routers, which likely share firmware from a common Chinese manufacturer, all have passwords of the form XXXXairocon, where XXXX are the […]

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CERT Alert on the Sony Malware

December 22, 2014 mitch tanenbaum

The U.S. CERT, part of the Department of Homeland Security, has released an alert describing the malware that took Sony apart pretty effectively. Without going into a lot of detail, here is the high level overview: The malware takes advantage of Windows SMB (server message block) protocols that are common to all versions of […]

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The Chinese Don’t Need To Hack Us, They Let Themselves In Via The Back Door They Left Open

CERT Alert on the Sony Malware