FIFA World Cup Security Team Accidentally Reveals their Wi-Fi Password
Sunday, June 29, 2014
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This FIFA World Cup,
the security has been really going well and yet no calamitous incident
reported so far, other than the security company who is responsible to
keep an eye on the event’s security, itself tweeted a photograph of
their state-of-the-art monitoring centre that exposed the World Cup
security centre's internal Wi-Fi password to the whole world.
Israel-based security firm RISCO is providing security management at the
soccer stadium and very proud of their incredible work in securing this
year’s World Cup, which includes monitoring and maintaining hundreds of
CCTV security cameras all over the 41,000-seat Arena Pantanal football
stadium in Cuiaba, Brazil.
The image was originally published by news outlet Correio Braziliense,
that showed the Federal Police's head of international co-operation Luiz Cravo Dorea,
standing in the mulch-million-dollar security center overseen by
Israeli company RISCO and was watching Live video feeds from
surveillance cameras.
The image was posted on Twitter and has been re-tweeted almost 3,000 times.
The World Cup security centre allows security personnel to view live
feeds from various cameras around the World Cup stadiums. But,
inadvertently it exposed Wi-Fi SSID and password in the background of
the pic on the big screen that anyone can read with a squint of the eye.
It reads :
Wifi Network: WORLDCUP
Password: b5a2112014
The password appears to be "brazil2014" in leet speak. I think it’s
completely unguessable and the most secure one for this highly
considered World Cup event. Haaa!
This accidentally leaked Wi-Fi
Credentials from the Security Centre of the biggest game on the Earth
could have given cybercriminals opportunity to carry out
man-in-the-middle attacks to break into their network and compromise the
systems.
But, definitely after media updates, they would have realized their
mistake and updated the WiFi SSID and password for the football World
Cup's security center secretly.
