North Korea is not famous for their advancement in the field of technology. And their leader lack skills in the field of IT.
It seems that System software providers who is responsible
for running North Korea’s version of Facebook, StarCon forgot to change
their default password.
The teen whose name is not disclosed is studying at a computing
college and he he guessed the login by checking on the details of the
software used to create the site, The Mirror reports.
The boy cracked the site’s cruel security by login into the admin page.
The teenager said:
I was curious and decided to visit it. The site was created using off the shelf software, so naturally i went to the vendor’s website looking at what features it had.
I came across a default username and password and though why the heck not. Once I logged in I was able to see the sites statistics, basic user information, site settings and change the site’s adverts.
I went ahead and changed the adverts saying that I found the login details then changed them to prevent anyone coming in and trying to do anything malicious.
He also said that the page similar to Facebook used a software called ‘phpDolphin’.
Researchers said that the site could be a ‘trial that was inadvertently made public’.
The teenager also added:
‘always test for vulnerabilities before making a site live, and of course, change the default password’.
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