• Shadow@lemmy.ca
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    In a post, the security firm said the username and “ridiculously weak” password were harvested by information-stealing malware that had been installed on an Orange computer since September.

    So the password being weak was actually irrelevant here, even if it was 32 random characters they would have pulled it off that pc.

    • cley_faye@lemmy.world
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      Depending on the attack vector it could also have pulled it out of other things, but that’s exactly why we have 2FA. And I mean real 2FA, on two different channels, that should be harder to compromise simultaneously.

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    A far more secure password would have been RipeAdmin1$. Gotta get those capitals, lowercases, numbers, and special characters.

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    according to a detailed writeup of the event by Doug Madory, a BGP expert at security and networking firm Kentik.

    What’s a ”BGP expert”? Most of this stuff is covered in an undergraduate networking course. Wouldn’t just “networking expert” do?

  • AutoTL;DR@lemmings.worldB
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    This is the best summary I could come up with:


    Orange España, Spain’s second-biggest mobile operator, suffered a major outage on Wednesday after an unknown party obtained a “ridiculously weak” password and used it to access an account for managing the global routing table that controls which networks deliver the company’s Internet traffic, researchers said.

    The password came to light after the party, using the moniker Snow, posted an image to social media that showed the orange.es email address associated with the RIPE account.

    In a post, the security firm said the username and “ridiculously weak” password were harvested by information-stealing malware that had been installed on an Orange computer since September.

    Once logged into Orange’s RIPE account, Snow made changes to the global routing table the mobile operator relies on to specify what backbone providers are authorized to carry its traffic to various parts of the world.

    All but one of them also originated with the Orange AS, and once again had no effect on traffic, according to a detailed writeup of the event by Doug Madory, a BGP expert at security and networking firm Kentik.

    The creation of the ROA for 149.74.0.0/16 was the first act by Snow to create problems, because the maximum prefix length was set to 16, rendering any smaller routes using the address range invalid


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