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NetGear Also Has Remote Access Wide Open

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the hotspot-back-doors dept.

Glenn Fleishman writes "On the heels of Linksys's WRT54G problem of not allowing remote access to be disabled in certain cases and firmware, BugTraq published this report that NetGear's WG602 access point has a hidden password that provides remote and local administrative control. Unlike Linksys's, where turning the firewall on (which is on by default, but a researcher found new units in which it was off when taken out of the box), the NetGear hole cannot be disabled. The backdoor seems to have been created by the vendor that packaged the device for NetGear."

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  1. Don't you mean.. by Sadiq · · Score: 5, Funny

    "The backdoor seems to have been created by the vendor that used to package devices for NetGear"

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  2. Re:One wonders what the internal policies are ... by Trigun · · Score: 5, Funny

    There's a backdoor in the software auditing software. The programmer is safe.

  3. taiwan, eh? by abscondment · · Score: 5, Funny

    A search on Google revealed that "5777364" is actually the phonenumber of z-com Taiwan which develops and offers WLAN equipment for its OEM customers.

    This number, surprisingly enough, is also the total amount of wooden furniture shipped from Malaysia to Bahrain in 1998. Conpsiracy! Conspiracy!

  4. Re:No backdoors with BSD! by Trigun · · Score: 5, Funny

    best line i could think of was "why do you come back and try my new kernal on...

    You should try my pick-up line: Excuse me miss, but does this rag smell like chloroform?

    Works every time.

  5. Awesome! by SuperBanana · · Score: 5, Funny
    Fixed in new firmware, available here:

    Super! Now I just have to downlo
    [CONNECTION DROPPED, REMOTE SIDE 0WN3D]

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