CISA reveals 'Admin123' as top security threat in cyber sloppiness chart

The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and the National Security Agency (NSA) are blaming unchanged default credentials as the prime security misconfiguration that leads to cyberattacks. Sticking with default credentials in software, systems, and applications topped the agencies' top ten major …

[Anonymous Coward]

Costruzioni Italiane Serrature e Affini

Padlock picture is very appropriate, since CISA is an Italian lock & access control manufacturer, founded in 1926, quite well known here on the continent.

The US agency was only founded in 2018, so they could easily have chosen different name/acronym than the then 92 years old company... Epic fail on their part.

[Yet Another Anonymous coward]

Re: Costruzioni Italiane Serrature e Affini

Ironically "Costruzioni Italiane Serrature e Affini" would be a better password

[Version 1.0]

Re: Costruzioni Italiane Serrature e Affini

So much of these attacks are organized by AI chat applications these days, so maybe QWERTY would be a good password because no AI applications have ever seen a keyboard.

[Martin-73]

Re: Costruzioni Italiane Serrature e Affini

amateur, QWERTY is the username, ASDFGH is the password

[Tron]

Security by design.

A government priority? Go ask a politician to explain it in detail then. Then check their passwords and tech usage.

As for the list, they appear to have forgotten to put state mandated back doors, state bans on E2EE and vendor software updates on it.

[NoneSuch]

Amateurs

Breaking news: Admin124 is the new rage. That'll throw them off.

[Martin-73]

Re: Amateurs

Admin 12345.... change the combination on my luggage

[garwhale]

Sad that default credentials aren't randomised to something stronger. Oh wait, they might have add a paper with the credentials, costing $1!