Backdoor Discovered In Netgear and Linkys Routers

An anonymous reader writes "A hacker has found a backdoor in the Linksys WAG200G router, that gives access to the admin panel without authentication. Further research shows that these devices are made by Sercomm, meaning that Cisco, Watchguard, Belkin and various others maybe affected as well. From the article: 'The backdoor requires that the attacker be on the local network, so this isn’t something that could be used to remotely attack DSL users. However, it could be used to commandeer a wireless access point and allow an attacker to get unfettered access to local network resources.'"

Comments

Re:malware = local

[hawguy]

is only a matter of infecting a computer inside the network.

Not even that. If dicking around with the port caused a hard reset of the router, who knows what would happen if you got someone to click on this link. (or set it as an img tag for automatic fun)

I think that's a bad link. Every time I click on it, I can't reach the internet for a few minutes.

This wasn't the NSA!

[CajunArson]

Their backdoors are implemented at much higher quality level.