Wonder how long ago that code was written...

From: Eric Kuhnke 
Sent: Wednesday, October 5, 2016 5:25 PM
To: af@afmug.com 
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] grain dryer port forwards and IoT security

It's dumb and the manufacturer should feel bad. But it's not really your 
problem to secure their device, if it gets pwned you can cut it off from the 
network per your TOS/AUP. 

Not much riskier to the ISP than being a colo provider and renting a small 
section of rack space and selling a static /30 to a customer who doesn't know 
how to secure their Linux server.


On Wed, Oct 5, 2016 at 4:22 PM, Ken Hohhof <af...@kwisp.com> wrote:

  We hooked up Internet to a new GSI tower dryer at a grain elevator, and 
assuming this is the correct manual, it wants ports 22, 23, and 80 forwarded to 
it.



  
http://www.grainsystems.com/content/dam/Brands/GSI/Manuals/English/Conditioning/pneg1720-062114-OS.pdf



  Without additional firewall rules, does this sound risky?  They have a 
cellphone app, which apparently goes directly to the dryer, not through some 
intermediary like a Team Viewer server.  So I don’t see what firewall rules we 
could put in.  Doesn’t this let every hacker, script kiddie, and bot herder in 
the world try to break into it via SSH, telnet and HTTP?  Do these guys move on 
if the default password has been changed?  I would think they would run 
dictionary attacks against it.

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