There have been some thorough studies of time to infection on unprotected m=
achines connected directly to the Internet...it often literally happens in =
seconds from the machine appearing on the network.


http://www.honeynet.org/papers/bots/


On Sep 28, 2012, at 5:22 PM, William Chops Westfield wrote:

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> On Sep 28, 2012, at 12:53 PM, V G wrote:
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>> It's silly to have root login disabled via SSH by default on an image de=
signed for a cheap development board that's almost 100% of the time never e=
xposed to the Internet, especially on first login.
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> No, it's not.  Haven't you heard the stories that a virgin windows XPsp1 =
system brought up on a typical unsecured LAN will be Pown'd before it gets =
a chance to install the updates to fix the bugs?
> Allowing any system to come up with an unsecured (or default password) ne=
twork root login would be a pinnacle of security irresponsibility!
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> In addition to keyboard/display, I think you're supposed to be able to lo=
g in via serial port (usb/serial.)
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> BillW
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