That's a good one, worthy of an entry in the Fuck-Up Hall of Fame.
Is your home or office internet gateway one of '1.2 MILLION' wide open to hijacking?
Hundreds of thousands of routers, firewalls and gateways used by small offices and homes are said to be vulnerable to hijacking due to bungled NAT settings. The networking devices are, we're told, commonly misconfigured to allow remote attackers to reprogram how network traffic flows to PCs, servers, tablets and other machines …
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Wednesday 22nd October 2014 21:31 GMT Shadow Systems
ButButButbutbutbut I am teh Secure!
I'm online via my Official Carrier branded modem, across Official Carrier lines, to my Official Carrier's HTTPS site over a Dial Up Connection! There's no possible way Comcast could be that insecu-
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I am perfectly assured of my excellent Comcast service. I have no problems what so ever with my awesome Comcast service. My Comcast Customer Support, Tech Support, and Billing is without equal, and leads the industry in every metric that matters. I believe strongly that the Comcast & TWC merger should be allowed to proceed without hesitation, as it will be good for everyone. I think Microsoft is the best company to have existed next to Comcast, and I offer up my children to my Corporate OverLords.
All hail the Mighty Comcast! Long may they reign!
-Signed, Tom Whe^^^ShadowSystems.
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...and I even use Microsoft Advanced Firewall!
I'll be fine.
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Thursday 23rd October 2014 08:24 GMT Peter Gathercole
And this is why...
...I run an additional hardware firewall separate from my ADSL router.
It's long been an axiom of any 'proper' security that you have multiple layers, each provided by a different vendor.
Even if each of them may have their own vulnerability, it seriously deters casual hackers if once they've breached one line of defence, there's a new and different one to knock down.
Some may see it as a challenge, but most will just give up.
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Friday 24th October 2014 18:01 GMT Anonymous Coward
Culture of disposability
Nearly all of the manufacturers shiiping routers/firewalls into the SOHO market have assumed as part of their business plans that these devices are basically disposable black boxes that will never need an update. Their R&D, manufacturing, pricing and support all depend on that assumption. That's why you rarely see software updates once a device is no longer in production. Of course the reality is that lots of these devices remain in service years after their release, becoming more vulnerable with each new exploit that remains unpatched. But that's the customer's problem.
This is the main reason a lot of us are transitioning from cheap SOHO hardware to equipment that's easier to keep updated, like SBC's running software such as pfSense. That's probably not an option, yet, for the truly technologically clueless, but might be a good opportunity for someone who has both the marketing and business management talent to stimulate demand and deliver solutions.