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| 19 Jul 2010 | #1 |
| | Millions of routers vulnerable to hack attack - Is yours? According to security researcher Craig Heffner, about half the existing models of home routers, including most Linksys, Dell, and Verizon, are vulnerable to being hacked. Read More: Millions of routers vulnerable to hack attack - Is yours? | ZDNet “Millions” Of Home Routers Vulnerable To Web Hack « The Firewall - Forbes.com Quote: The hack relies on tricking people to visit a malicious website. From that point on, the router itself can be hijacked and the poor user redirected pretty much anywhere the hacker wants them to go. The hack relies on a hack known as “DNS rebinding,” something that has been around for nearly 15 years. Heffner has tested 30 routers and found about half of them to be vulnerable, through a combination of either a software flaw or a weak settings password. Think you’re safe because you use OpenDNS or Firefox NoScript plug-in? Think again! According to Heffner, this doesn’t offer any protection. So, what to do if your router is vulnerable? Well, check for updates, but if they’re not forthcoming, buy a new one. Oh, and change those default passwords, every hackers knows them! Last edited by Borg 386; 19 Jul 2010 at 11:39 AM.. |
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| 19 Jul 2010 | #2 |
| | Weak/default passwords are always a given but the chances of a hacker wasting his time trying to hack through the internet to someone's personal computer are slim to none. Besides, on most home routers the remote management is disabled by default. |
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| 19 Jul 2010 | #3 |
| | No "weak settings password" here. According to a variation of my 30-character mixed up router password at How Secure Is My Password? Quote: It would take About 7,732,087,003 nonillion years for a desktop PC to crack your password |
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Quote: Originally Posted by Corrine  No "weak settings password" here. According to a variation of my 30-character mixed up router password at How Secure Is My Password? Quote: It would take About 7,732,087,003 nonillion years for a desktop PC to crack your password 63 character (a-z, A-Z, 0-9) randomly generated and nobody will ever be able to crack it.  |
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| 19 Jul 2010 | #5 |
| | The problem with that, JonM33, is that I wouldn't be able to get past it myself if I needed to. |
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| 19 Jul 2010 | #6 |
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Quote: Originally Posted by Corrine The problem with that, JonM33, is that I wouldn't be able to get past it myself if I needed to. I just copy and paste it into Notepad and stick it on a USB flash drive. When I need to add a computer to my wireless network (rarely) I just open the TXT file and copy and paste it. |
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| 19 Jul 2010 | #7 |
| | Good way to handle it -- for you. I can visualize myself trying to remember which USB stick had the password.  |
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| 19 Jul 2010 | #8 |
| | Well Corrine, you can always do like this one lady in class did, she gave all her USB sticks names  |
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| 19 Jul 2010 | #10 |
| | Another way Corrine, is to buy different colored ones for different computers. Like you do with you supply of shoes, purses, and ( well I better stop there if I want to stay on here)! |
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