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Sprint DSL's Security Hole Easy As 1,2,3,4

Posted by timothy on from the oh-didn't-you-catch-that dept.

An Anonymous reader points to this Wired article, excerpting "Sprint officials acknowledged that remote access to the administrative software embedded in the ZyXel Prestige 642 and 645 modems is by default protected with a password of '1234.' But the company said users are responsible for securing the equipment, which stores login data, including the user's e-mail address and password." Wired found that more than 90% of the modems they polled were using that default password.

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  1. Obligatory Spaceball's quote by cshoes · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Roland: One.
    Dark Helmet: One.
    Sandurz: One.
    Roland: Two.
    Dark Helmet: Two.
    Sandurz: Two.
    Roland: Three.
    Dark Helmet: Three.
    Sandurz: Three.
    Roland: Four.
    Dark Helmet: Four.
    Sandurz: Four.
    Roland: Five.
    Dark Helmet: Five.
    Sandurz: Five.
    Dark Helmet: So the combination is one, two, three, four, five? That's the stupidest combination I've ever heard! That's the kind of combination an idiot would put on his luggage!

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  2. Re:Unrelated, but much more serious security hole by doja · · Score: 0, Redundant

    um... i think they did.

  3. Re:Unrelated, but much more serious security hole by SpamJunkie · · Score: 1, Redundant

    This is a lie. There is in fact a slashdot story on the CVS exploit. You're getting a little too ambitious about spamming Slashdot, aren't you NineNine?

    On the other hand you seem to have all it takes to be a Slashdot Editor.

  4. Re:Unrelated, but much more serious security hole by br0ck · · Score: 0, Redundant

    No conspiracy here. Guess you missed it the first time. Don't worry, I'm sure it will be posted again soon.

  5. Re:Unrelated, but much more serious security hole by tuanjim_2001 · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Oh kinda like this one that was reported yesterday?

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  6. Parent is Troll! by KPU · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Here is the slashdot article.

  7. been there, done that. by zaphod.nu · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Considering how much you seem to know I'm sure this is not what you're refering to?

  8. Re:Unrelated, but much more serious security hole by 8282now · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Gee do you think maybe it was THIS one? http://developers.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/0 1/21/1752251&mode=thread .... on the other hand, I spend altogether too much time on /. ... sigh...

  9. Re:Unrelated, but much more serious security hole by Rich0 · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Of course, /. isn't going to post an article telling about a serious hole in CVS [com.com]. Expecially considering their own Sourceforge...

    Yeah! Slashdot would never post an article like that! Especially not a few days ago on the front page! (If you missed it the first time I'm sure you'll get to see it again in a few days.)

    Note to whoever modded that up as informative. I would recommend at least reading Slashdot before moderating it. Then again, if those doing the posting would do the same we wouldn't have nearly as many duplicates... :)

  10. Nope, sorry, already been discussed by plemeljr · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Hey, this story was already discussed on 15:20 21st January, 2003.

    Please move along. No conspiracy here. Try not to snark too quickly.

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  11. Re:Unrelated, but much more serious security hole by tupps · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Well there is this article... Remote Root Exploit in CVS http://developers.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/0 1/21/1752251&mode=thread Posted three days ago.

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