http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/21/researcher-will-enable-hackers-to-take-over-millions-of-home-rou/ Engadget Comments for http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/21/researcher-will-enable-hackers-to-take-over-millions-of-home-rou/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/21/researcher-will-enable-hackers-to-take-over-millions-of-home-rou/Jul 21st 2010 6:40AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/21/researcher-will-enable-hackers-to-take-over-millions-of-home-rou/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/21/researcher-will-enable-hackers-to-take-over-millions-of-home-rou/Hmmmm.... My password is "admin" is that ok? Maybe I should change it to "password"-]]>Jul 21st 2010 6:43AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/21/researcher-will-enable-hackers-to-take-over-millions-of-home-rou/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/21/researcher-will-enable-hackers-to-take-over-millions-of-home-rou/
Nah, change it to "password1"]]>Jul 21st 2010 6:48AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/21/researcher-will-enable-hackers-to-take-over-millions-of-home-rou/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/21/researcher-will-enable-hackers-to-take-over-millions-of-home-rou/Jul 21st 2010 6:48AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/21/researcher-will-enable-hackers-to-take-over-millions-of-home-rou/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/21/researcher-will-enable-hackers-to-take-over-millions-of-home-rou/That's the kind of combination an idiot has on his luggage!]]>Jul 21st 2010 6:54AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/21/researcher-will-enable-hackers-to-take-over-millions-of-home-rou/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/21/researcher-will-enable-hackers-to-take-over-millions-of-home-rou/
Well, good luck to them, because I for one cannot figure out how the hell to do it.]]>Jul 21st 2010 7:04AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/21/researcher-will-enable-hackers-to-take-over-millions-of-home-rou/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/21/researcher-will-enable-hackers-to-take-over-millions-of-home-rou/I have 9876, no one will think of that]]>Jul 21st 2010 7:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/21/researcher-will-enable-hackers-to-take-over-millions-of-home-rou/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/21/researcher-will-enable-hackers-to-take-over-millions-of-home-rou/I'm sorry, but this is just overhyped BS. Nothing but script kiddie noobsh1t techniques. Any fool can write a like to 192.168.1.1?dostuff.

Typical clueless journalism.]]>Jul 21st 2010 7:07AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/21/researcher-will-enable-hackers-to-take-over-millions-of-home-rou/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/21/researcher-will-enable-hackers-to-take-over-millions-of-home-rou/
* Thinks about changing luggage combination *]]>Jul 21st 2010 7:10AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/21/researcher-will-enable-hackers-to-take-over-millions-of-home-rou/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/21/researcher-will-enable-hackers-to-take-over-millions-of-home-rou/Jul 21st 2010 7:54AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/21/researcher-will-enable-hackers-to-take-over-millions-of-home-rou/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/21/researcher-will-enable-hackers-to-take-over-millions-of-home-rou/Jul 21st 2010 9:03AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/21/researcher-will-enable-hackers-to-take-over-millions-of-home-rou/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/21/researcher-will-enable-hackers-to-take-over-millions-of-home-rou/so, the vulnerability is a default password?
thats the way this article makes this seem]]>Jul 21st 2010 9:41AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/21/researcher-will-enable-hackers-to-take-over-millions-of-home-rou/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/21/researcher-will-enable-hackers-to-take-over-millions-of-home-rou/Jul 21st 2010 10:22AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/21/researcher-will-enable-hackers-to-take-over-millions-of-home-rou/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/21/researcher-will-enable-hackers-to-take-over-millions-of-home-rou/Jul 21st 2010 10:35AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/21/researcher-will-enable-hackers-to-take-over-millions-of-home-rou/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/21/researcher-will-enable-hackers-to-take-over-millions-of-home-rou/
ALL YOUR ROUTER ARE BELONG TO US!]]>Jul 21st 2010 10:48AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/21/researcher-will-enable-hackers-to-take-over-millions-of-home-rou/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/21/researcher-will-enable-hackers-to-take-over-millions-of-home-rou/Jul 21st 2010 11:04AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/21/researcher-will-enable-hackers-to-take-over-millions-of-home-rou/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/21/researcher-will-enable-hackers-to-take-over-millions-of-home-rou/
What a boring achievement, this guy. In the amount of time he spent fooling around, he could have probably wrote a small program to sell and actually progress society while making a little money.]]>Jul 21st 2010 11:34AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/21/researcher-will-enable-hackers-to-take-over-millions-of-home-rou/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/21/researcher-will-enable-hackers-to-take-over-millions-of-home-rou/Jul 21st 2010 2:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/21/researcher-will-enable-hackers-to-take-over-millions-of-home-rou/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/21/researcher-will-enable-hackers-to-take-over-millions-of-home-rou/u cant do nothin]]>Jul 21st 2010 2:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/21/researcher-will-enable-hackers-to-take-over-millions-of-home-rou/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/21/researcher-will-enable-hackers-to-take-over-millions-of-home-rou/Jul 21st 2010 6:41AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/21/researcher-will-enable-hackers-to-take-over-millions-of-home-rou/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/21/researcher-will-enable-hackers-to-take-over-millions-of-home-rou/
Hah, I have a WRT54G with DD-WRT. Too bad I know how to secure it properly! Muhahaha...]]>Jul 21st 2010 7:19AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/21/researcher-will-enable-hackers-to-take-over-millions-of-home-rou/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/21/researcher-will-enable-hackers-to-take-over-millions-of-home-rou/Jul 21st 2010 6:41AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/21/researcher-will-enable-hackers-to-take-over-millions-of-home-rou/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/21/researcher-will-enable-hackers-to-take-over-millions-of-home-rou/Jul 21st 2010 6:43AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/21/researcher-will-enable-hackers-to-take-over-millions-of-home-rou/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/21/researcher-will-enable-hackers-to-take-over-millions-of-home-rou/Jul 21st 2010 7:58AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/21/researcher-will-enable-hackers-to-take-over-millions-of-home-rou/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/21/researcher-will-enable-hackers-to-take-over-millions-of-home-rou/Jul 21st 2010 8:00AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/21/researcher-will-enable-hackers-to-take-over-millions-of-home-rou/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/21/researcher-will-enable-hackers-to-take-over-millions-of-home-rou/
lol.... atleast engadget is not blocked. ]]>Jul 21st 2010 8:42AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/21/researcher-will-enable-hackers-to-take-over-millions-of-home-rou/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/21/researcher-will-enable-hackers-to-take-over-millions-of-home-rou/Jul 21st 2010 8:49AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/21/researcher-will-enable-hackers-to-take-over-millions-of-home-rou/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/21/researcher-will-enable-hackers-to-take-over-millions-of-home-rou/Jul 21st 2010 11:28AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/21/researcher-will-enable-hackers-to-take-over-millions-of-home-rou/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/21/researcher-will-enable-hackers-to-take-over-millions-of-home-rou/
Oddly enough, when I was in Iran in May, out of all the websites I visit from home the only one that wasn't blocked was Engadget...]]>Jul 21st 2010 4:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/21/researcher-will-enable-hackers-to-take-over-millions-of-home-rou/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/21/researcher-will-enable-hackers-to-take-over-millions-of-home-rou/Jul 21st 2010 6:46AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/21/researcher-will-enable-hackers-to-take-over-millions-of-home-rou/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/21/researcher-will-enable-hackers-to-take-over-millions-of-home-rou/Jul 21st 2010 6:47AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/21/researcher-will-enable-hackers-to-take-over-millions-of-home-rou/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/21/researcher-will-enable-hackers-to-take-over-millions-of-home-rou/Jul 21st 2010 6:49AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/21/researcher-will-enable-hackers-to-take-over-millions-of-home-rou/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/21/researcher-will-enable-hackers-to-take-over-millions-of-home-rou/
http://www.blackhat.com/html/bh-us-10/bh-us-10-briefings.html

"Confirmed affected routers include models manufactured by Linksys, Belkin, ActionTec, Thompson, Asus and Dell, as well as those running third-party firmware such as OpenWRT, DD-WRT and PFSense."]]>Jul 21st 2010 7:56AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/21/researcher-will-enable-hackers-to-take-over-millions-of-home-rou/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/21/researcher-will-enable-hackers-to-take-over-millions-of-home-rou/Jul 21st 2010 9:03AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/21/researcher-will-enable-hackers-to-take-over-millions-of-home-rou/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/21/researcher-will-enable-hackers-to-take-over-millions-of-home-rou/
I wonder if Tomato is in that list...]]>Jul 21st 2010 8:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/21/researcher-will-enable-hackers-to-take-over-millions-of-home-rou/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/21/researcher-will-enable-hackers-to-take-over-millions-of-home-rou/Jul 21st 2010 6:53AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/21/researcher-will-enable-hackers-to-take-over-millions-of-home-rou/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/21/researcher-will-enable-hackers-to-take-over-millions-of-home-rou/

but i don't even know my username and pass, it's a good thing Firefox remembers it. it's probably set to default anyway]]>Jul 21st 2010 6:55AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/21/researcher-will-enable-hackers-to-take-over-millions-of-home-rou/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/21/researcher-will-enable-hackers-to-take-over-millions-of-home-rou/Jul 21st 2010 6:57AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/21/researcher-will-enable-hackers-to-take-over-millions-of-home-rou/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/21/researcher-will-enable-hackers-to-take-over-millions-of-home-rou/Jul 21st 2010 7:01AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/21/researcher-will-enable-hackers-to-take-over-millions-of-home-rou/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/21/researcher-will-enable-hackers-to-take-over-millions-of-home-rou/Jul 21st 2010 12:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/21/researcher-will-enable-hackers-to-take-over-millions-of-home-rou/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/21/researcher-will-enable-hackers-to-take-over-millions-of-home-rou/Jul 21st 2010 7:04AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/21/researcher-will-enable-hackers-to-take-over-millions-of-home-rou/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/21/researcher-will-enable-hackers-to-take-over-millions-of-home-rou/Jul 21st 2010 7:53AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/21/researcher-will-enable-hackers-to-take-over-millions-of-home-rou/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/21/researcher-will-enable-hackers-to-take-over-millions-of-home-rou/+1 Pretty much everyone I've ever done tech support for has absolutely no idea how to even log into their own router.

I dislike you, Craig Heffner.]]>Jul 21st 2010 4:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/21/researcher-will-enable-hackers-to-take-over-millions-of-home-rou/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/21/researcher-will-enable-hackers-to-take-over-millions-of-home-rou/Jul 21st 2010 7:04AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/21/researcher-will-enable-hackers-to-take-over-millions-of-home-rou/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/21/researcher-will-enable-hackers-to-take-over-millions-of-home-rou/Jul 21st 2010 7:11AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/21/researcher-will-enable-hackers-to-take-over-millions-of-home-rou/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/21/researcher-will-enable-hackers-to-take-over-millions-of-home-rou/Jul 21st 2010 8:11AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/21/researcher-will-enable-hackers-to-take-over-millions-of-home-rou/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/21/researcher-will-enable-hackers-to-take-over-millions-of-home-rou/Jul 21st 2010 8:24AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/21/researcher-will-enable-hackers-to-take-over-millions-of-home-rou/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/21/researcher-will-enable-hackers-to-take-over-millions-of-home-rou/Jul 21st 2010 7:14AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/21/researcher-will-enable-hackers-to-take-over-millions-of-home-rou/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/21/researcher-will-enable-hackers-to-take-over-millions-of-home-rou/
Of course this exploit may already be in use by proper criminals so a bit of publicity might help close this door to them.]]>Jul 21st 2010 7:36AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/21/researcher-will-enable-hackers-to-take-over-millions-of-home-rou/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/21/researcher-will-enable-hackers-to-take-over-millions-of-home-rou/
Disagree. If Cisco hasn't fixed the problem despite warnings, there is no guarantee that this action will actually force them to fix it, plus you are then reliant upon them managing to get every impacted product in circulation updated. All this does is greatly increase the risk of a successful attack to customers and I fail to see how this can be a "good thing". As I said, I understand the rationale behind this but I do think this practice is fundamentally flawed, plus it sounds like a publicity stunt to boot.

Sorry, but I think this action is wrong. Security researchers are a fairly dubious bunch at the best of times (how many of them are ex-hackers?) and this one is definitely stepping beyond what is acceptable. It's almost hacking by proxy.]]>Jul 21st 2010 8:02AM