WatchGuard has been caught doing what a lot of first-timers to access control have done — simply hashing passwords as a means of implementing security — but perhaps all isn’t that bad in the world.
Information security researcher Jérôme Nokin, who runs a blog on all the fun things you can do over IP, found that WatchGuard’s firewall appliances are taking a bit of a shortcut when it comes to storing passwords.
It’s the typical mistake of recognising that storing plain text passwords is a big no-no, but not going any further than simply hashing the password. In WatchGuard’s case, it had been performing an NTLM hash of the password and that’s it.
SOURCE: zdnet.com
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