Default system accounts cause most corporate security breaches
A global breach of over 30,000 security devices revealed that 63 percent of compromised accounts were still using factory-default settings or unrenamed administrator profiles.
Even the world's most sophisticated technology giants are vulnerable to the simplest of security oversights. In a massive data breach involving tens of thousands of security devices, researchers discovered that roughly 63 percent of the compromised accounts were either default system profiles or standard administrator accounts that had never been renamed. This lack of basic credential hygiene allowed hackers to bypass advanced defenses at firms including Samsung, Oracle, and Siemens.
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