Australia's Biggest Telco Sold Routers With Hardcoded Passwords

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Posted by Unknown Lamer on Tuesday November 13, 2012 @12:01AM
from the who-released-the-debug-build dept.

mask.of.sanity writes "Hardcoded usernames and passwords have been discovered in a recent line of Telstra broadband routers that allow attackers access to customer networks. The flaws meant customer unique passwords could be bypassed to access the device administrative console and LAN."

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Comcast routers (Score:5, Informative)

by onix (990980) writes: on Tuesday November 13, 2012 @12:03AM (#41963945)

Some Comcast Xfinity routers have WiFi SSID and WPA encryption key hardcoded. It can be changed via software interface only to be reset when Comcast sends a firmware upgrade.

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Re:Comcast routers (Score:3, Informative)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Tuesday November 13, 2012 @12:09AM (#41963973)

All of them using the exact same SSID and WPA (hardcoded) or each device has it's unique SSID and WPA hardcoded, big diff there.

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Comcast routers (Score:5, Informative)

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