Millions of Home Routers Will Soon Be Hacked

[exfileme]

A researcher plans to launch a hacking tool that will break into millions of home networks. Oh, and have a nice day while you're at it.

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[Sabiancym]

Good, maybe it'll get fixed.

 

[JonathanDeane]

Awesome my old router is not vulnerable, best 5$ I ever spent... lol

 

[jomofro39]

Damn it.

 

[jackson1420]

lulz

 

[ik242]

Yep

 

[extremepcs]

Good luck with mine. WPA2 + RADIUS + very complex router password...

 

[danimal_the_animal]

m0n0wall

 

[IFLATLINEI]

One word - SMOOTHWALL. Even before this it was not uncommon knowledge that consumer grade routers are a joke.

 

[stingstang]

Still need to 'trick' the user in to visiting a website. Good luck with that one.
BUT I hear 92.7% of Americans get this optical illusion wrong! I gotta prove that I can get it right!

 

[hellwig]

Hmm... yeah, cause grandma and mom and dad and your aunt susan and brother-in-law phil all know what firmware is and what "update your firmware" means. Is this guy releasing the hack going to go into the millions of homes that currently use these routers and upgrade them? No? Even if Linksys and Netgear and everyone updates their products, the defective products will still exist in peoples homes. Is this researcher going to refund everyone the money they spent on insecure routers so they can buy new routers? No?

Then I guess all this asshole has done is give script kiddies more tools to hack unsuspecting individuals. Way to go, like we need more dickheads in the world.

 

[chickenhoagie]

very smooth trick to gain quick access to someones router..but anyone would be quite the fool to not use a good password for their router.

 

[kittle]

heh.. change the default router password is one of the first things I do.. and instruct my parents to do as well.

 

[drutort]

all they have do really is have a feature (for new firmware/routers) that you cant have internet access until you changed the default password 😛 i dont know why they havent done that, having default pass is stupid its only there to do a hard reset (physically) oh well i guess lots of companies are going to get lots of complaints... suits them right... but feel sorry for all the ppl who dont have a clue what firmware means... or that they can even get into a router...

 

[sentinelcomputers]

I believe the intent here is to force the router manufacturers to address this problem in a meaningful fashion. He's really not giving something new to the hacker community. This is an old and well-known vulnerability.

The bottom line is that the destination site must be corrupted with the appropriate script. A site like Tom's isn't likely to do that; and sites that would (porns sites primarily), already use browser vulnerabilities to disseminate malware.

 

[meat81]

Still, why make this hacking tool available for the public? Why would any "researcher" put millions of users at risk of hijacking and data theft?

To sell the fix to millions and get rich..

 

[sandmanwn]

got a Honey Pot setup for people like this. I'll be watching you fail.

 

[antilycus]

you'll never make a system 100% secure. it will N E V E R happen. Not even your high priced CISCO boxes, with the command scripts can make it 100%. Hell look at upnp, it's based off of a syntax/infrastructure that died in 2001 but its still used today. GRE is the way in.

 

[teknic111]

@extremepcs...your wpa2 + radius + complex password will not protect you from this kind of attack!

 

[antilycus]

also for a classic example on how this wont make a lick of difference look at how Symantec Antivirus is still one of the most purchased corporate solutions. Yet its success rate is worse than the Kansas City Royals!