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[–] [email protected] 86 points 3 weeks ago (5 children)

with the US-based security vendor on November 11 urging customers to pull their management interfaces off the public internet or restrict them to known IP addresses.

Why would you EVER put management interfaces on the public internet? What terrible decisions led them down that path? VPN is so quick and easy at a minimum.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

The network gear I manage is only accessible via VPN, or from a trusted internal network...

...and by the gear I manage, I mean my home network (a router and a few managed switches and access points). If a doofus like me can set it up for my home, I'd think that actual companies would be able to figure it out, too.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 weeks ago

Management interfaces shouldn't even be accessible from the general LAN.

[–] Evotech 9 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I know right, 99% of these caves are against management interfaces too

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago

Saw the writing on the wall, there.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

Once I read this I just stopped lol. You almost deserve to be explored if you do this, this is like security 101.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago