The 40 Year Old Vulnerabilities

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I recently did a security audit on a device and found it was using default credentials. Usually I like to check when a vulnerabilty was released to include in my report. I was surprised to find out that the vulnerability was over 40 years old!

Vulnerability First Published
Telnet default account: admin/password December 31, 1969
SSH default account: admin/password December 31, 1969
SSH default account: admin/admin December 31, 1969
Shell Backdoor December 31, 1969


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