Give us the cheat codes to your industry/place of work!

    • Passerby6497@lemmy.world
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      6 months ago

      ISP security is clown shoes at times. I was reading a blog post of a dude who played with their ISP APIs and was able to make changes to his own router because authenticated API endpoints returned data unauthenticated multiple times because they could just send the same request multiple times until it returned data. They fixed it quick, but still …

      https://samcurry.net/hacking-millions-of-modems

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        6 months ago

        It’s fascinating how these guys think. There’s so much inferring what might have been done behind closed doors, and correctly.

        I’m also surprised that one of these threat-detection things people talk about wasn’t triggered when he was literally sending with “123456789” in most of the fields of a request.

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          6 months ago

          I’m also surprised that one of these threat-detection things people talk about wasn’t triggered when he was literally sending with “123456789” in most of the fields of a request.

          Considering their systems allowed data return just because they got asked repeatedly, I’m not surprised at all. You’d be surprised the seemingly important metrics that don’t get monitored and reported on during day to day operations.