{"id":691,"date":"2025-07-07T17:59:19","date_gmt":"2025-07-07T15:59:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/familiebuckens.nl\/?p=691"},"modified":"2025-07-07T17:59:19","modified_gmt":"2025-07-07T15:59:19","slug":"manufacturing-security-why-default-passwords-must-go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/familiebuckens.nl\/index.php\/2025\/07\/07\/manufacturing-security-why-default-passwords-must-go\/","title":{"rendered":"Manufacturing Security: Why Default Passwords Must Go"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If you didn&#8217;t hear about\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/cyberscoop.com\/cisa-urges-vendors-to-get-rid-of-default-passwords\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Iranian hackers<\/a>\u00a0breaching US water facilities, it&#8217;s because they only managed to control a single pressure station serving 7,000 people. What made this attack noteworthy wasn&#8217;t its scale, but how easily the hackers gained access \u2014 by simply using the manufacturer&#8217;s default password &#8220;1111.&#8221; This narrow escape prompted\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cisa.gov\/resources-tools\/resources\/secure-design-alert-how-manufacturers-can-protect-customers-eliminating-default-passwords\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">CISA<\/a>\u00a0to urge manufacturers to eliminate default credentials entirely, citing &#8220;years of evidence&#8221; that these preset passwords remain one of the most exploited weaknesses.<\/p>\n\n\n<a class=\"wp-block-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/familiebuckens.nl\/index.php\/2025\/07\/07\/manufacturing-security-why-default-passwords-must-go\/\" target=\"_self\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thehackernews.com\/2025\/07\/manufacturing-security-why-default.html\">Manufacturing Security: Why Default Passwords Must Go<\/a><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">: Manufacturing Security: Why Default Passwords Must Go<\/span><\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you didn&#8217;t hear about\u00a0Iranian hackers\u00a0breaching US water facilities, it&#8217;s because they only managed to control a single pressure station serving 7,000 people. What made this attack noteworthy wasn&#8217;t its scale, but how easily the hackers gained access \u2014 by simply using the manufacturer&#8217;s default password &#8220;1111.&#8221; This narrow escape&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,17],"tags":[40,15],"class_list":["post-691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cybersecurity","category-vulnerability","tag-40","tag-iran"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/familiebuckens.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/691","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/familiebuckens.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/familiebuckens.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/familiebuckens.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/familiebuckens.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=691"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/familiebuckens.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/691\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":692,"href":"https:\/\/familiebuckens.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/691\/revisions\/692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/familiebuckens.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/familiebuckens.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/familiebuckens.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}