---
id: 8207
title: "Tearing Apart a Datto Device"
source_domain: netspi.com
source_url: "https://www.netspi.com/blog/technical-blog/web-application-pentesting/tearing-apart-a-datto-device/"
published_at: "2015-06-18T00:00:00Z"
tags: ["pentesting", "hardware-hacking", "backup", "ssh", "vnc", "datto"]
phying_url: "https://phying.com/item/8207"
lang: en
---

# Tearing Apart a Datto Device

## Summary

Details a security assessment of a Datto backup appliance, from the documented VNC password and SSH access to recovering the aurorauser password and reaching stored backups over SMB.

## Intelligence Metadata

- **Sources:** netspi.com
- **Published:** 2015-06-18T00:00:00Z
- **Original:** https://www.netspi.com/blog/technical-blog/web-application-pentesting/tearing-apart-a-datto-device/
- **Phying News:** https://phying.com/item/8207