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Re: Hackers hijack 300, 000-plus wireless routers, make malicious changes | Ars Technica
From: Merike Kaeo <kaeo () merike com>
Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2014 11:52:02 -0800
On Mar 4, 2014, at 6:54 AM, Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu wrote:
On Tue, 04 Mar 2014 09:28:01 -0400, jim deleskie said:Why want to swing such a big hammer. Even blocking those 2 IP's will isolate your users, and fill your support queue's. Set up a DNS server locally to reply to those IP's Your customers stay up and running and blissfully unaware. Log the IP's hitting your DNS servers on those IP and have your support reach out to them in a controlled way, or reply to any request via DNS with an internal host that has a web page explaining what is broken and how they can fix it avoiding at least some of the calls to your helpdesk.Two words: "DNS Changer". What did we learn from that?
My thoughts exactly. Some walled gardens set up in those instances. And don't blindly follow someone's advice without looking at impacts to your networks. CPE devices are just a huge cesspool. Any device that already doesn't let you change username 'admin' is off to a bad start. We have to get these supposedly 'plug it in and never touch it' devices to be better at firmware upgrades. - merike
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- Hackers hijack 300, 000-plus wireless routers, make malicious changes | Ars Technica Jay Ashworth (Mar 04)
- Re: Hackers hijack 300, 000-plus wireless routers, make malicious changes | Ars Technica fmm (Mar 04)
- Re: Hackers hijack 300, 000-plus wireless routers, make malicious changes | Ars Technica Andrew Latham (Mar 04)
- Re: Hackers hijack 300, 000-plus wireless routers, make malicious changes | Ars Technica Davide Davini (Mar 04)
- Re: Hackers hijack 300, 000-plus wireless routers, make malicious changes | Ars Technica Andrew Latham (Mar 04)
- Re: Hackers hijack 300, 000-plus wireless routers, make malicious changes | Ars Technica jim deleskie (Mar 04)
- Re: Hackers hijack 300, 000-plus wireless routers, make malicious changes | Ars Technica Valdis . Kletnieks (Mar 04)
- Re: Hackers hijack 300, 000-plus wireless routers, make malicious changes | Ars Technica Merike Kaeo (Mar 04)
- Re: Hackers hijack 300, 000-plus wireless routers, make malicious changes | Ars Technica Warren Bailey (Mar 04)
- Re: Hackers hijack 300, 000-plus wireless routers, make malicious changes | Ars Technica Niels Bakker (Mar 04)
- Re: Hackers hijack 300, 000-plus wireless routers, make malicious changes | Ars Technica Andrew Latham (Mar 04)
- Re: Hackers hijack 300, 000-plus wireless routers, make malicious changes | Ars Technica fmm (Mar 04)
- Re: Hackers hijack 300, 000-plus wireless routers, make malicious changes | Ars Technica Jay Ashworth (Mar 04)
- Re: Hackers hijack 300, 000-plus wireless routers, make malicious changes | Ars Technica Octavio Alvarez (Mar 04)
- RE: Hackers hijack 300, 000-plus wireless routers, make malicious changes | Ars Technica Ian McDonald (Mar 04)
- Re: Hackers hijack 300, 000-plus wireless routers, make malicious changes | Ars Technica Brandon Galbraith (Mar 04)
- Re: Hackers hijack 300, 000-plus wireless routers, make malicious changes | Ars Technica Jimmy Hess (Mar 04)
- Re: Hackers hijack 300, 000-plus wireless routers, make malicious changes | Ars Technica Octavio Alvarez (Mar 04)
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