Electric vehicle chargers of the brand Hypercharger were shipped with an insecure default password and allowed access to a configuration interface to anyone over the Internet. The vendor reacted quickly, but incidents like this show potential IT security risks of electrification infrastructure.
  • @[email protected]
    9•10 months ago

    Hardcoding passwords in factory firmware is so early-2010’s. You would think the long list of routers, cameras, and IOT devices listed on Shodan would be a cautionary tale.

    But nooo.

  • LUHG
    1•10 months ago

    For the price of a few coffees they could have generated one using a password manager. Bitwarden or anything.

    • @WetAndFlummoxed
      1•10 months ago

      For the price of free they could generate one. Though they shouldn’t be hard coded regardless of how good it is.

      • ggppjj
        1•10 months ago

        I’m sure the things have network adapters, using the MAC address would be marginally more secure than this.