Subj : Water Treatment Plant Hacked Using Teamviewer
To   : Warpslide
From : August Abolins
Date : Fri Feb 12 2021 10:15:00

Hello Warpslide!

** On Friday 12.02.21 - 03:05, Warpslide wrote to August Abolins:

 W> On 12 Feb 2021, August Abolins said the following...

 AA>> Considering that no one is offering any details on the specific
 AA>> hack, and considering that Teamviewer was used (I've use that
 AA>> program in the past too) I would bet that the "hack" was
 AA>> someone's kid who managed to play around with his parent's
 AA>> Teamviewer configuration when the parent wasn't around to
 AA>> notice.

 W> The "hack" was that the attacker obtained/guessed the password for
 W> TeamViewer and then that same password was used everywhere else:

 W> https://www.cnn.com/2021/02/11/us/florida-water-plant-hack/index.html


Thank you for that link.  As already known to all, an unknown  
technical exploit in Teamviewer nor Win7(32) was at fault.  I'm  
guessing that since the same login credentials were used by all  
of the water treament plants, some bozo either told another  
worker what the login creds were over the phone and their kids  
everheard everything, or the creds were simply written down on a  
post-it note attached to a monitor at home that any kid could  
see.

Or.. I wonder.. if Teamviewer can keylog un and pw and some  
adventurous sole at Teamviewer decided to take advantage of  
that?
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