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Australia's Biggest Telco Sold Routers With Hardcoded Passwords

Posted by Unknown on from the who-released-the-debug-build dept.

mask.of.sanity writes "Hardcoded usernames and passwords have been discovered in a recent line of Telstra broadband routers that allow attackers access to customer networks. The flaws meant customer unique passwords could be bypassed to access the device administrative console and LAN."

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  1. Comcast routers by onix · · Score: 5, Informative

    Some Comcast Xfinity routers have WiFi SSID and WPA encryption key hardcoded. It can be changed via software interface only to be reset when Comcast sends a firmware upgrade.

    1. Re:Comcast routers by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Informative

      All of them using the exact same SSID and WPA (hardcoded) or each device has it's unique SSID and WPA hardcoded, big diff there.