World of VNC

75 points by mhays 10 years ago | 38 comments

dang 10 years ago |

We had a major thread about something similar a few weeks ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11367666. Is this story significantly different?

nacs 10 years ago | |

This site is actually up (unlike the roulette one) and seems to also show IPs (I don't think the previous one showed IPs).

plymb 10 years ago |

On this screen one can see the scanners ip: http://imgur.com/INXXlbI

eric_h 10 years ago | |

Ha! I wonder if whomever was using that VNC session had an "oh shit" moment there.

drakmail 10 years ago |

After disabling an adblock have several new tabs with mackeeper site opened =(

Turned adblock on again

sosuke 10 years ago | |

Yeah I saw the "please disabled adblocker message" with a cute cat. I then thought about what the site was doing and I decided to keep it on and close out the site instead.

worldofvnc 10 years ago | | |

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achtung666 10 years ago |

https://worldofvnc.net/browse.php?id=177 I just hope it's not what it looks like

bluedino 10 years ago |

>> I found 3567 servers that were unprotected.

That's pretty low for scanning the whole internet. Either VNC isn't used that much or I was simply expecting 10 times as many servers.

allthetime 10 years ago | |

I run an unprotected VNC server at home, but its not open to the world because I'm using a router that doesn't expose local ports, like most people.

iancarroll 10 years ago | |

Unprotected VNC servers != all VNC servers, or even weak VNC servers. You could probably brute force into a lot more, but that's definitely illegal.

achillean 10 years ago | |

It is low, Shodan has found more than 10,000 VNC that have disabled authentication:

https://www.shodan.io/search?query=rfb+authentication+disabl...

And there are roughly 550,000 VNC servers on the Internet:

https://www.shodan.io/search?query=rfb

vhold 10 years ago |

Geezus he included the hostnames and IPs? This is so insanely irresponsible.

bradbeattie 10 years ago | |

Could be worse: http://www.insecam.org/

lisivka 10 years ago | | |

Nice one: http://www.insecam.org/en/view/257447/

sushisource 10 years ago | |

I'd argue it's responsible. Security through obscurity is no security at all.

stirner 10 years ago | | |

Avoiding security through obscurity is a topic for people in the crypto industry. Random people with misconfigured VNC servers most likely aren't computer experts, and revealing their addresses is pointless and irresponsible. Yes, maybe making this information public will cause them to fix their configuration. More likely, they will just be attacked.

api 10 years ago |

Sooooo many of these look so disturbingly like industrial process control... and this is on the HN front page... I think some people are gonna have a bad day.

gherkin0 10 years ago |

I like this one:

https://worldofvnc.net/browse.php?id=2677

It looks like the LCD display of some embedded system, something I would have never expected to see over VNC.

listic 10 years ago | |

An industrial controller: https://worldofvnc.net/browse.php?id=981

ThatGuy123 10 years ago |

Woa! https://www.twitch.tv/worldofvnc

varjag 10 years ago |

https://worldofvnc.net/browse.php?id=2113 judging by the tab names, some Russian botnet HQ.

sebtoast 10 years ago |

Browsing those are fun. I wonder what that is http://i.imgur.com/c796ANj.jpg

koolba 10 years ago | |

It's a grain elevator.

TheCapn 10 years ago | |

First guess is a grain dryer

protomyth 10 years ago | | |

Those are not cheap pieces of equipment to run and I hope like hell it is not remote controllable. You can make or break an elevator operation by how you deal with moisture.

sebtoast 10 years ago | | |

That makes sense, thanks.

mhurron 10 years ago | |

I was surprised I did not see porn.

illumin8 10 years ago |

Here's a really funny one:

https://worldofvnc.net/browse.php?id=440

I wonder whether anyone connected and upgraded him to Windows 10...

nom 10 years ago |

That one is really weird: https://worldofvnc.net/browse.php?id=1107

I got no clue so far.. but so many questions!

lisivka 10 years ago | |

https://worldofvnc.net/browse.php?id=2136

niij 10 years ago | | |

The font...

varjag 10 years ago |

This is terrifying.

So many live systems, from CNC lathes through den feeders and boiler controllers to entire city water treatment facilities..

tux3 10 years ago |

I'm interested to see that they only found 3567 open servers, whereas a scan I have from a couple years ago shows 7573 entries.

Now is it just a difference in scanned ports or a genuine improvement in security, I can't tell, but I can only hope.

achillean 10 years ago | |

Their numbers are too low. Shodan has found closer to 12,000 servers that have disabled authentication.

lisivka 10 years ago |

wind-farm: https://worldofvnc.net/browse.php?id=2116

paulojreis 10 years ago |

Now, that's an ode to the Internet of (Shitty) Things (https://twitter.com/internetofshit?lang=en).

trhway 10 years ago |

i think it is obligatory to mention that Intel CPUs (which have vPro enabled, ie. Xeons and some others) have VNC server built-in on the chip.