Did you mistakenly sell your network access? – Week in security with Tony Anscombe | WeLiveSecurity

Did
you
mistakenly
sell
access
to
your
network
when
you
sold
a
decommissioned
router?
Recently,
ESET
researchers
purchased
several
used
core
routers
to
set
up
a
test
environment,
only
to
find
that,
in
many
cases,
the
previously
used
configurations
had
not
been
wiped
and
that
the
devices
still
contained
trivially
accessible
sensitive
corporate
information.
The
researchers
went
on
to
carry
out
a
more
extensive
test
and
eventually
described
their
findings
in
a

research
paper
that
was
published
this
week
and
will
also
be
presented
at
the
upcoming

RSA
Conference.

Watch
the
video
to
find
out
more.
The
team’s
findings
are
also
available
here:

Discarded,
not
destroyed:
Old
routers
reveal
corporate
secrets

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Andy Curtis is an award-winning security consultant, researcher and public speaker. He has been working in the computer security industry since the early 1990s, having been employed by state and federal government, leading healthcare and banking providers across three continents. He has given talks about computer security for some of the world’s largest companies, worked with law enforcement agencies on investigations into hacking groups, and is a regular voice on TV and radio explaining IT security threats.

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