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MobiusHorizonstoday at 12:41 AM2 repliesview on HN

Fun fact I have actually had an sbc get hacked because I didn’t change the default password. I thought it would be reasonably safe for a few days because I knew the VLAN it was on had NAT and the associated firewall rules that deny inbound packets without outbound. But it turned out ipv6 was also enabled on that VLAN with no firewall. Left a bad taste in my mouth over a decade later even if it was a misconfigured firewall rather than an inherent issue with ipv6.


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alanfranztoday at 4:10 AM

…and they did really guess an ipv6 address? Full scans of the ipv6 address space looks infeasible. Or did the sbc reach out to the internet thus having its address exposed?

Otherwise just the huge amount of addresses should make ipv6 “more secure” imho.

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solaris2007today at 5:44 AM

That's pretty embarrassing lol

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