Flaw Allows Hackers to Find Ubiquiti Devices Exposed to Web

  • 6 November 2015
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By Eduard Kovacs on November 06, 2015
 
Ubiquiti Networks products have the remote administration feature enabled by default and a new flaw found by researchers at SEC Consult allows malicious hackers to quickly identify potentially vulnerable devices.

There have been several reports over the past months about devices from wireless networking solutions provider Ubiquiti Networks being abused by malicious actors for DDoS attacks and malware distribution. Such attacks are in many cases possible due to unchanged default credentials and a remote management feature that is enabled by default.
 
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Now.....lets take a look at this......Ubiquiti should have better sense and change its credentials and passwords on a frequent basis, I thought that it what has been pounded into our brains time after time to protect ones PC or server.

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