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Time Warner Routers Still Hackable Despite Company Assurance |
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Source: Wired - Posted by Anthony Pell
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A blogger who stumbled across a vulnerability in more than 65,000 Time Warner Cable customer routers says the routers are still vulnerable to remote attack, despite claims by the company last week that it patched the routers.
Last Tuesday, David Chen, an internet startup-founder, published information about the vulnerability in Time Warner’s SMC8014 series cable modem/Wi-Fi router combo, made by SMC. The problem would allow a hacker to remotely access the device’s administrative menu over the internet and potentially change the settings to intercept traffic, making possible all sorts of nefarious activity.
Time Warner acknowledged the problem to Threat Level that day, and said it was testing replacement firmware code from the router manufacturer, which it planned to push out to customers soon. Shortly after Threat Level published a piece about the vulnerability, a Time Warner spokesman Tweeted to Chen that the patch had been deployed and customer routers were now protected.
Read this full article at Wired
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