Regular passwords lit up on TV. Now the British Railways

It seems that shining passwords in the media is becoming a tradition. Following the French television channel TV5Monde, the royal air force base and the security center for the 2014 World Cup, their passwords on stickers stuck to the monitor were shown in a BBC documentary film London Railroad Management Center.

Login and password appeared on the 44th minute of the documentary film "Nick And Margaret: The Trouble With Our Trains", in which journalists Nick Huer and Margaret Mountford talk about the deplorable state of the British railway. During the transfer, they, among other things, visit the so-called Wessek Integrated Management Center, which controls and controls local trains around the clock, located above the entrance platform to London Waterloo Railway Station. The frames clearly show the local train management system that runs on machines with Windows XP (which also raises questions, since security updates for this platform have not been released for a long time). For some time, a monitor with pieces of paper attached to it with the login CO-WSX-WGO-01A and the password Password3 is caught in the frame, and others with similar stickers are visible behind it ...

UPD: For “security reasons”, previous downloads of the movie on YouTube have been removed, but the world is not without good people.


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The management of the road has not yet commented on this incident in response to a request from the British edition of The Register.

Judging by the discussion at the site of the railroad forum, these details are most likely used only for logging into the local Windows machine and cannot be used for some remote access to the train management system, but the fact of this attitude to information security is strategic. the enterprise, and even more so the demonstration of this disgrace on national television, raises serious questions to the security services of the British railway.

This incident occurred just a few days after reports of the potential for hacking into computer control systems of British railways, which could lead to a collision of oncoming trains.

Here , by the way, you can look at the interactive map of the tracks at Waterloo Station, almost the same thing that is displayed in the control center.



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