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Most Home Routers Vulnerable to Flash UPnP Attack

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the oh-this-will-go-well dept.

An Anonymous reader noted that some folks at GNU Citizen have been researching UPNP Vulnerabilities in home routers, and have produced a flash swf file capable of opening open ports into your network simply by visiting an unfortunate URL. Looks like Firefox & Safari users are safe for now.

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  1. Open open... by ElGanzoLoco · · Score: 5, Funny

    [...] a flash swf file capable of opening open ports into your network [...]

    Hold on, now I'm confused: does this attack open open ports, or does it open ports open? Or even worse, does it open open open ports? :D

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    Hello! I'm a disaster waiting to happen!
  2. Re:Let me be the first... by TheCRAIGGERS · · Score: 2, Funny

    Firefox is safe anyway, for the time being.

    Still, NoFlash... NoScript... soon I'll have to install NoImage and NoCSS. I guess it's time to go back to Gopher.

  3. Re:Turn off UPNP by binaryspiral · · Score: 5, Funny

    For most of these people, uPNP is a godsend since it eliminates the need to mess around with portforwarding in the router configuration.

    If uPNP is a godsend to those people... they need to get a better God.

  4. Re:WHERE $money; PUT $mouth by bignetbuy · · Score: 4, Funny

    Challenging an anon coward...

    Yeah, that'll work.

  5. Re:Nothing new, really by mcmonkey · · Score: 2, Funny

    Yup, I have seen people computers infected from msn.com

    Isn't that redundant? The GP already stated,

    It all hinges on going to a malicious web site.
  6. Re:Turn off UPNP by Cramer · · Score: 4, Funny

    Simple. Buy one of the new Linksys Draft-N routers and put it in 40MHz mode. It'll stomp all over them.