Researchers have found that more than half of secondhand enterprise routers they bought for testing had been left completely intact by their previous owners with network information, credentials, and confidential data about the institutions left on them.
or laptop before you resell it or give it to your cousin. After all, there's a lot of valuable personal data on there that should stay in your control. Businesses and other institutions need to take the same approach, deleting their information from PCs, servers, and network equipment so it doesn't fall into the wrong hands.
All nine of the unprotected devices contained credentials for the organization's VPN, credentials for another secure network communication service, or hashed root administrator passwords. And all of them included enough identifying data to determine who the previous owner or operator of the router had been.
“A core router touches everything in the organization, so I know all about the applications and the character of the organization—it makes it very, very easy to impersonate the organization,” says Cameron Camp, the ESET security researcher who led the project. “In one case, this large group had privileged information about one of the very large accounting firms and a direct peering relationship with them.
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