Leaving the Front Door Wide Open

It turns out that 3.4 million servers are currently shouting their vulnerabilities to the heavens, with 60,000 of them not even bothering with a password. Industrial control panels are sitting there like low-hanging fruit for the REDHEBERG botnet, while we all pretend that basic network hygiene is some sort of unattainable wizardry. Keeping the wolves at bay requires the Herculean effort of actually using a firewall and turning off remote services that have no business being exposed to the public internet.