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.
  • fubarx@lemmy.ml
    9·
    11 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@lemmy.world
    21·
    11 months ago

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

      • ggppjj@lemmy.world
        1·
        11 months ago

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