RE: FYI: FW: [fw-wiz] Re: Home/SOHO "Firewall" Routers
- From: "Greg Mulholland" <gregstelatel@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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- Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2004 12:00:10 +1000
Is that a spin-off of the "*nix is more secure than MS" club. :P
Greg Mulholland
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From: Thomas W Shinder [mailto:tshinder@xxxxxxxxxxx]
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Hi Greg,
Ha! You and me both. I wonder if the "hardware" firewall club members are
members of the flat earth society too? :-)
Tom
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From: Greg Mulholland [mailto:gregstelatel@xxxxxxxxxxx]
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Tom, I can say my hardware routers/firewall boxes have given me more trouble
than I care to mention. Someone once told me they weren't susceptible to
exploits like a software firewall was, hmmmmmmmmm
Greg Mulholland
"Firmware Upgrader"
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Repeat after me: "hardware" firewalls are more security than software
firewalls, hardware firewalls are more secure than software firewalls....
(you get what you pay for too):
1. Linksys WiFi Gateway Remote Attack Risk Slashdot URL:
<http://tinyurl.com/yuh8j>
"According to InternetNews.com, a tech consultant discovered that even if
you turn the remote administration feature off on a Linksys WRT54G -- the
single bestselling Wi-Fi device in the world -- you can still remotely
access it through ports 80 and 443. Linksys sets the HTTP username to
nothing and password to 'admin' on all of its devices by default. Web site
scanning from anywhere in the world to devices that have routable
Internet-facing addresses would allow script kiddie remote access, at which
point you could flash the unit with new firmware, extract the WEP or WPA
key, or just mess up someone's configuration and change the password."
2. Netgear's silly fix for Netgear Router backdoor Slashdot URL:
<http://tinyurl.com/2ffcf>
An anonymous reader writes "Recently Slashdot reported that the Netgear
router has as WLAN backdoor. According to this report by the news service of
the German publisher Heise Netgear "fixed" the problem with a firmware
update. And what is the fix? According to Heise, they didn't remove the
backdoor at all. Instead they just changed the login information! They
replaced the old user name 'super' with 'superman', and changed the old
password to '21241036'. "
3. Benkin Routers route user to Censorware Ad Slashdot URL:
<http://tinyurl.com/ysdd4>
The Register has a story today about Belkin routers redirecting their users'
network traffic. To me, this seems like the logical next step after
top-level domain name servers piping ads to your browser. Now the routers
themselves hijack the traffic they are supposed to, uh, route -- and you'll
love where they send you instead. But it's OK because you can opt out.
Incidentally, the Crystal Ball Award goes to Seth Finkelstein, who in
2001 quoted John Gilmore's famous aphorism about the internet, and asked
"What if censorship is in the router?"
_Vin
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