• Backdoor found in D-Link routers
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[url]http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-24519307#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa[/url]
See, thing about this sort of article is they make it out like hackers are jumping all over this when it's more likely the NSA and if hackers didn't know about it before, they do now, thanks to this sort of article.
Oh shit, i've got a D link router setup as a switch.
Bull fucking shit it's a "bug"
It's not clear. Does this require remote access to be enabled or not? If it does, that is still a problem, but that is generally disabled by default on most equipment. If it bypasses remote access requirements that's bad, as in "holy fucking shit what the fuck were you thinking?" kind of bad.
[QUOTE=sam6420;42524469]No.. how do you think the people who wrote this article found out about it? Because hackers had it documented..[/QUOTE] Well yeah, but now you have a ton more to worry about that didn't know about it. What, are you assuming everybody ever knew about it beforehand?
[QUOTE=DeVotchKa;42521221]See, thing about this sort of article is they make it out like hackers are jumping all over this when it's more likely the NSA and if hackers didn't know about it before, they do now, thanks to this sort of article.[/QUOTE] [Quote]So far, the backdoor does not seem to have been exploited "in the wild".[/Quote]
[QUOTE=smurfy;42526156]ice burn[/QUOTE] to be fair, the BBC reporting on something like this is probably going to increase the number of attempts made, although pretty much only by script kiddies
Ahahaha, I know several folks who aren't even gonna bother updating since they don't know how to.. :\ Unfortunately. Hopefully they never read this article so I don't have to go over and show them.
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