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Adelphia's Cable Modems Compromised

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the leaving-the-door-open dept.

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."

5 of 182 comments (clear)

  1. Post First Have !? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    See Title.

  2. Hmmm by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Yes, butt...

    ...Second Post!
  3. what's in a name by Shamashmuddamiq · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    There was a girl in my high school named "Adelphia". We called her "Phil".

    --
    ...just my 2 gil.
  4. IN DARK LAND OF MORDOR... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    ...one ring find you!

  5. You're fired. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic