Millions of routers vulnerable to hack attack - Is yours?

[Borg 386]

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.

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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!

 

[JonM33]

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.

 

[Corrine]

No "weak settings password" here. According to a variation of my 30-character mixed up router password at How Secure Is My Password?

It would take
About 7,732,087,003 nonillion years
for a desktop PC to crack your password

 

[JonM33]

No "weak settings password" here. According to a variation of my 30-character mixed up router password at How Secure Is My Password?

It would take
About 7,732,087,003 nonillion years
for a desktop PC to crack your password

Nice! But I use this for my WPA2 wireless password: https://www.grc.com/passwords.htm

63 character (a-z, A-Z, 0-9) randomly generated and nobody will ever be able to crack it.

 

[Corrine]

The problem with that, JonM33, is that I wouldn't be able to get past it myself if I needed to.

 

[JonM33]

The problem with that, JonM33, is that I wouldn't be able to get past it myself if I needed to.

Heh heh, but neither can anyone else.

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.

 

[Corrine]

Good way to handle it -- for you. I can visualize myself trying to remember which USB stick had the password.

 

[Borg 386]

Well Corrine, you can always do like this one lady in class did, she gave all her USB sticks names

 

[Corrine]

:roflmao:

 

[The Howling Wolves]

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)!

 

[JonM33]

Good way to handle it -- for you. I can visualize myself trying to remember which USB stick had the password.

Then put the TXT file on all of them. It will be a whopping 63 bytes in size. I am sure each thumb drive will have the space.

 

[Corrine]

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)!

I'd still need to locate the them. As to the shoes/purses equation, that wouldn't work here. I'm not a shopper, have one purse (3 or 4 years old) and probably have more USB sticks than I have pairs of shoes.

Good way to handle it -- for you. I can visualize myself trying to remember which USB stick had the password.

Then put the TXT file on all of them. It will be a whopping 63 bytes in size. I am sure each thumb drive will have the space.

I was teasing. Your suggestion is a good idea and may indeed work for someone needing this solution.

 

[The Howling Wolves]

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)!

I'd still need to locate the them. As to the shoes/purses equation, that wouldn't work here. I'm not a shopper, have one purse (3 or 4 years old) and probably have more USB sticks than I have pairs of shoes.

Good way to handle it -- for you. I can visualize myself trying to remember which USB stick had the password.

Then put the TXT file on all of them. It will be a whopping 63 bytes in size. I am sure each thumb drive will have the space.

I was teasing. Your suggestion is a good idea and may indeed work for someone needing this solution.

Corrine,
I would have lost my behind on betting you had more shoes and purses than that.
I took the test and it would take a hacker 117 days to crack mine so I guess I better think of a better one.........right now it's "PassWord":roflmao: just joking of course.

 

[Everlong]

My WPA2 key is too long to enter in that box lol.

 

[Dave76]

No "weak settings password" here. According to a variation of my 30-character mixed up router password at How Secure Is My Password?

It would take
About 7,732,087,003 nonillion years
for a desktop PC to crack your password

Nice link, thanks Corrine, this will be an excellent eye opener for people.

 

[polarbear]

My WPA2 key is too long to enter in that box lol.

Guess no use wasting my time hacking your WPA2 then... hehe

 

[Borg 386]

Corrine,

My wife says she's going to paint her USB drives with different colors of nail polish to keep track of them.....:huh:

There's an idea??????