Jul 11, 2008
An open letter to TEO LT, AB
Greetings to TEO LT!
This open letter deals with the security issue in your Internet connection system and potential threats it might cause for your customers.
As it is assumed, all competitive IT system administrators should know the fundamental rules on password security (one can read an article here, if it is a new thing). But somehow, I don’t know why – your administrators are using THE SAME PASSWORD on some type of hardware – which account for about 20% of long time using commercial Internet users (this information was collected by my self, and I have found about 168 IP addresses from 255×3 with the same password).
Just imagine if a villain is throwing an attack on this issue. First of all, he will have an opportunity to configure the hardware to be accessible only locally. This means that your engineers will have to visit every “hacked” customer and reconfigure the hardware “by hand”. I just wonder, how many companies are using this hardware about which I’m writing here…
To see an example of my words, please refer to the picture below.
Please find time and reconfigure the hardware remotely, change passwords and keep the security in high level. This will help to sustain reputation, profitability and capitalization either.
Best regards,
Anatolij
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