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Re: Time Warner Cable Exposes 65,000 Routers to Remote Attacks Time Warner testing fix to hole in home router
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Time Warner has rolled out a temporary patch and is testing a permanent fix.
"We are aware of the issue and we are hard at work on a solution and have been for quite some time," Alex Dudley, a Time Warner Cable spokesman, said on Tuesday.
"The manufacturer has developed a fix," he added. "We believe it will work and we are testing it now to make sure it won't affect our network in other ways."
In the meantime, customers should be protected by a temporary patch, he said. Time Warner will push the permanent fix out to the affected devices from its regional data centers, possibly as soon as a matter of days, Dudley said.
About 67,000 devices across Time Warner's network are affected out of 14 million devices total.
Temporary patch? Sounds like maybe TW blocked the inbound remote admin port in the meantime. You'd think people would hard at work port scanning for these things right now.
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