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Subject: [ISN] Vulnerable terminal servers could let bad guys hack stoplights, gas pumps
From: InfoSec News <alerts () infosecnews ! org>
Date: 2013-04-25 5:06:44
Message-ID: alpine.DEB.2.02.1304250006300.15165 () infosecnews ! org
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By Jaikumar Vijayan
Computerworld
April 24, 2013
Thousands of older systems, including those used to manage critical
industrial control equipment, traffic lights, fuel pumps, retail
point-of-sale terminals and building automation are vulnerable to
tampering because they're insecurely connected to the Internet via
terminal servers.
A terminal server, or a network access server, basically provides an
easy way to connect any equipment that has a serial port to the
Internet.
In a recent study, security firm Rapid7 found more than 114,000 terminal
servers on the Internet configured in a way that could allow anyone to
gain access to the underlying systems. Most of the systems were from
Digi International and Lantronix, two leading manufactures of terminal
server devices.
About 95,000 of those servers connected to the Internet via cellular
mobile connections and 3G network cards, making them hard to protect,
monitor and secure, according to H.D. Moore, the chief research officer
at Rapid7 and the author of the study.
[...]
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