I have been trying to use the snmp-sysdescr.nse script within NMAP (Windows binaries) without success. Using NMAP with other arguments, I have been able to verify that port 161/UDP is open and ...

Industrial control system operators running Rockwell MicroLogix 1400 PLCs have been warned about a vulnerability that exposes these devices in critical industries to attack. An undocumented SNMP ...

The Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) is a necessary tool for every network administrator. You can easily configure it with just a few commands. SNMP is still the most popular way to monitor ...

Run a sniffer on your network to capture all port 161 traffic to that device. You'll see the community string since it's passed in plain text.

In all of the cases, the devices allow the extraction of user authentication data via the read-only community string of public information. Rapid7 researchers Matthew Kienow and Deral Heiland were ...