Submission + - China's IT Infrastructure Rife With Security Holes (threatpost.com)
chicksdaddy writes: "A U.S. security expert has uncovered data on more than 10,000 job applicants for positions with China's State Administration of Foreign Experts Affairs, including user names and passwords that could be used to gain access to other sensitive government systems. The discovery by Dillon Beresford, a security researcher with NSS Labs, is part of ongoing research that has discovered thousands of loosely protected or unprotected computer servers operated by the Chinese government. Beresford also claims to have discovered 12,000 vulnerable devices running the VxWorks embedded operating system. Those devices include Voice over IP (VoIP) phone systems, telecommunications switches, routers and SCADA systems."