Ancient telnet bug happily hands out root to attackers • The Register (www.theregister.com)

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[-] Mellow12@lemmy.world 12 points 1 month ago

Seriously, who is installing telnet server on their production systems? It’s already against every security guideline I’m aware of.

[-] Hippy@piefed.social 7 points 1 month ago

Mikrotik routers. But it should be firewalled from WAN interface.

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