 baineschile2600 ways to livePremium
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Sterling Heights, MI | Eh If a competant hacker knew what he was doing, basic security that all wireless uses can be accessed. |
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join:2005-05-17 | said by baineschile:If a competant hacker knew what he was doing, basic security that all wireless uses can be accessed. Fair enough, but I think this is less about "hackability" than it is about incredibly poor network security management by TW. If they set the system up this way, leaving a customer-end unit so exposed is stupid and dangerous. If this was left in this configuration by SMC or by a third party programmer, then they are similarly negligent and one could point a finger at TW for allowing it to happen.
It'll be interesting to hear if there's more to this story.
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 jester121Premium
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Lake Zurich, IL | reply to baineschile
But wireless security is only vulnerability when you're in range of the radio -- this vulnerability is accessible from anywhere. |
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said by baineschile:If a competant hacker knew what he was doing, basic security that all wireless uses can be accessed. Yeah but this is the kind of hacking anyone with a little computer experience can do. It doesn't take a rocket scientists to disable java scripts in a browser to see what that does.
And although a small percentage, 65.000 users could equal hundreds of online bank accounts and credit cards, IF someone indeed is able to abuse the unit to GAIN access to anything, which I don't know is the case. But if the admin side can be accessed from the internet side, you bet someone is finding out some way of exploiting it.
Best thing that TWC could do is give SMC two weeks to come up with a firmware that fixes this issue and then roll it out to the affected users. If that can't be done, contact the users in question and replace the modems. 65.000 is country wide, which would probably translate into a few thousand per division, which is oversee-able.
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