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Russian researchers armed with Shodan and Censys have identified nearly 5,000 SD-WANs with vulnerable management interfaces. It won't surprise anyone, The Register suspects, that most of the problems the three researchers (Denis Kolegov and Antony Nikolaev of Tomsk State University, and DarkMatter's Sergey Gordeychik) …

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  1. Dr Who

    Not really an SD-WAN issue

    You will almost certainly find that most of the routers, firewalls etc... in the world are missing crucial software updates. It's a network admin issue not an SD-WAN issue.

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  2. Anonymous Coward
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    It is if your SD-WAN appliance du choix is based on an horrifically out of date linux distro and the vendor patches are few and far between. Remember, these management interfaces are not supposed to be exposed to the Internet (generally), so the vendor line may well be that fixing vulnerabilities for an unsupported deployment is not a priority.

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    1. JohnFen
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      It's still an admin issue if the admin(s) in question haven't been raising holy hell about replacing that equipment with something that is better supported. If they have, but the company is unwilling to engage in such maintenance, then it's a management issue.

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  3. Detective Emil
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    Please, sir!

    What's an SD-WAN?

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    1. JohnFen
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      Re: Please, sir!

      Software Defined Wide Area Networking: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SD-WAN

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    2. David Roberts
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      Re: Please, sir!

      SD-WAN is an updated verdion of the traditional OB-WAN.

      Which sometimes is your only hope.

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