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Adelphia's Cable Modems Compromised
texus writes "The Adelphia PowerLink Cable Modem Internet Service Provider, that serves 5.5 million customers nation wide, was found to be vulnerable of a major security flaw that allows cable modem subscribers to spy on each others traffic, as well as the ability to modify other users internet packets in realtime. The severity of a potential attack could allow a malicious subscriber to gain access to the customers private activity on the net, as well as the capabilities to hijack connections, intercept SSL/SSH/VPN encrypted sessions, hijack and poison dns servers, and perform a Denial of Service on the entire subnet. The advisory on BugTraq officially states that it didn't seem like Unix machines that logged onto the network were affected, but reports from other Adelphia subscribers indicate that this was inaccurate and Unix users are vulnerable as well."
A vast warehouse of porn and spam doesn't really need a lock, now does it?
It's nice to see that the computing industry as a whole is following Micro$oft's example and taking security "so seriously".
Well, I work for the highest level of support at Adelphia and you're fired!
No, just kidding, but really I doubt your company would appreciate you posting messages like that, should have went AC at least.
I've had enough abrasive sigs. Kittens are cute and fuzzy.
You mean that packets sent out over the Internet might be subject to interception?? The horror.
The Openbsd project is humilated!
Well, I'm an Adelphia subscriber and I haven't noticed any problems so f
It seems to only affect windows users dhcp requests, as for *nix it hands off an entirely different subnet ip address that is not vulnerable. This doesn't stop one from booting into *nix and manually configuring their ip to be on the vulnerable subnet.
Does anyone else find that funny? Windows users are vulnerable to a security flaw by default (as usual). But, (if they feel left out) Unix users can configure their box to be vulnerable too!!
using System.Awesome;
Did you know that your land line and cell phone calls can be tapped? Or that clerks in any of the institutions to whom you give your credit card numbers could steal them--or worse--*sell* them for profit! *shudder*
Your car, for instance, can be bugged and tracked by a Nav positioning satellite so that the baddies will know where you are every minute of the day! I could go on, but now I think you see...it's *horrible*!
Good, then maybe some hacker will get confused and intercept my Adelphia cable TV hookup and inject some decent fucking cable programming for a change!