The Onboarding Password Mistake That Creates Unnecessary Risk
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Feed Name: The Hacker News
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The article warns that common onboarding practices—sending temporary "first-day" passwords via email, SMS, or verbal transmission—create attackable weaknesses when those credentials are reused, intercepted, or left unchanged; it illustrates the risk with a 2023 PLC compromise by Cyber Av3ngers using default credentials and a 2025 McHire admin-account exposure, and recommends eliminating temporary passwords via Specops solutions to reduce this risk.
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