Im actually glad this happenned for a few reasons. first being it only got customer airrouters with public IPs on our network. port 80 was already changed on most for the DMZ but we had still open and 5.62 was our base firmware, we just hadnt moved up because it was "stable" we just hadnt gone back through and religiously upgraded backhauls and CPE routers It made the decision official to move to providing a mikrotik router rather than an air router to every customer who wants one- woot
It opened our eyes to the serious impact of being small and acting small. We had always approached things as being a big fish in a small pond of our small coverage area, we thought being in the small pond we didnt have to take overall security all that seriously. The reality is we are a minnow in a polluted ocean and this round there happenned to be a bunch of drunken teenagers who hijacked a cinch-net fishing trawler. The moral of this story is that our attitude opened the door for us to be part of the global malicious traffic problem. Our lack of good stewardship made us bad neighbors. If we were Japanese I think this is when we would gut ourselves with a sword, good thing we are arrogant prick Americans and we can just brush off the responsibility and blame UBNT. On Wed, May 18, 2016 at 4:54 PM, Josh Reynolds <j...@kyneticwifi.com> wrote: > Yup... > On May 18, 2016 4:43 PM, "Mathew Howard" <mhoward...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> The sad thing is, even if people couldn't be bothered to update firmware, >> most (if not all) of this could've been avoided if they secured their >> networks properly. >> >> On Wed, May 18, 2016 at 11:26 AM, Simon Westlake <simon@sonar.software> >> wrote: >> >>> I think it's good - obviously there's people who hadn't updated for a >>> year even though this was a critical issue. The more exposure, the better! >>> >>> On 5/18/2016 11:18 AM, Josh Reynolds wrote: >>> >>> FFS why is this even a thing >>> >>> (Not your show, this discussion.) >>> >>> On Wed, May 18, 2016 at 11:12 AM, Dennis Burgess < >>> dmburg...@linktechs.net> wrote: >>> >>>> RIGHT NOW! <http://www.ispradio.com>www.ispradio.com >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> [image: DennisBurgessSignature] >>>> >>>> www.linktechs.net – 314-735-0270 x103 – dmburg...@linktechs.net >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Simon Westlake >>> Skype: Simon_Sonar >>> Email: simon@sonar.software >>> Phone: (702) 447-1247 >>> --------------------------- >>> Sonar Software Inc >>> The next generation of ISP billing and OSShttps://sonar.software >>> >>> >> -- If you only see yourself as part of the team but you don't see your team as part of yourself you have already failed as part of the team.
