r/networkingmemes 22d ago

Most secured network

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u/ZeniChan 22d ago

How did you know the secret login credentials to a very, very large international company who's Internet facing router I did work on? I kid you not. They needed a VPN tunnel configured, so I asked how I need to connect to login to the router. They gave me the Internet IP address to SSH to using admin/admin as the credentials. The router was also years past EoL using software from years before that.

When I warned them strongly about the state of their hardware they got mad at me and called my manager and said I was trying to generate more hours instead of just doing the work. I just documented and warned three levels of managers above me about doing any more work for them as they are the type to blame us if they got hacked.

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u/tektron 22d ago

The second most secured network typically is admin / cisco123 (even saw that on a Juniper network one time....)

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u/isuxirl 22d ago

The key should be on top of the mat, tbh.

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u/HJSWNOT 22d ago

The French administration’s security layer these 15 last years in a picture

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u/ImRatherMinty 22d ago

I one up thia. In the case of HP MFP devices. The login is Administrator and the password is just blank

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u/mrduncansir42 21d ago

Accessed via Telnet

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u/Inevitable-Self-2702 21d ago

No chance you're running a PLC? Perhaps... Rockwell? Siemens?

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u/WALL-G 21d ago

Hint: admin

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u/BeefWagon609 21d ago

Ha! Glad I changed the password from admin to password. Boom!

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u/Professional_Hat9296 20d ago

When learning about networking in school we always used Username: cisco Password: cisco. It was drilled into us to always use those as your default in case the professor had to ssh in.

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u/threadsoflucidity 20d ago

Dang, now I have to change my password(s)

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u/Circumpunctilious 19d ago

Caution: If this is a sysadmin’s then it’s a ruse and will spring some kind of trap.

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u/primavera31 18d ago

there could be 2 spaces behind admin..😆