During the course of a recent security audit I was rather surprised to find a critical system still running with a default password. The default password has long been the bug bear of many the security admin. At the same time it has been the savior of many of us at one stage or another, desperately locked out from that system, urgently requiring access, and no clue as to what the password is, or might be.
The default password is generally installed by the manufacturer, most often on hardware devices such as routers and wireless access points, but also by software application developers and even on some operating systems, although this is becoming less and less commonplace. Beware the Default Password
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