How Attackers Use Unmanaged Switches with Default Passwords
A small switch tucked under a desk can look harmless. It may connect a printer, a few workstations and an access point; it may have been added years ago to solve a temporary problem. But when nobody knows who installed it, what it connects to or whether it can be managed, that switch can become part of an attacker’s path through the network. There is an important distinction in the title of this post. A truly unmanaged switch has no configuration interface and therefore