AT&T Microcell Disassembly; Security Flaws Exposed

Posted by Unknown on Wednesday April 4, 2012 @04:20AM from the bind-all-the-addresses dept.

CharlyFoxtrot writes "The geeks over on the fail0verflow blog took apart an AT&T Microcell device which is 'essentially a small cell-tower in a box, which shuttles your calls and data back to the AT&T mothership over your home broadband connection.' They soon uncovered some real security issues including a backdoor : 'We believe that this backdoor is NOT meant to be globally accessible. It is probably only intended to be used over the IPSEC tunnel which the picoChip SoC creates. [...] Unfortunately, they set up the wizard to bind on 0.0.0.0, so the backdoor is accessible over the WAN interface.'"

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Re:Improved Roaming by xyzzyman · 2012-04-04 07:41 · Score: 5, Funny

So just enclose your microcell in a Faraday cage so it can't detect any AT&T signal and it'll boost itself as strong as possible! There's ZERO DOWNSIDES. I've thought this through.