Botnet uses default passwords to conduct "Internet Census 2012"

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Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 20, 2013 @11:12AM

An anonymous reader writes "By using four different login combinations on the default Telnet port (root/root, admin/admin, root/[no password], and admin/[no password]), an anonymous researcher was able to log into (and upload a binary to) "several hundred thousand unprotected devices" and run "a super fast distributed port scanner" to scan the enitre IPv4 address space."
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"It's in process": So wrapped up in red tape that the situation is almost hopeless.

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