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Researcher Find D-Link DWR-932 Router Is 'Chock Full of Holes' (helpnetsecurity.com)
Reader JustAnotherOldGuy writes: Security researcher Pierre Kim has unearthed a bucketload of vulnerabilities in the LTE router/portable wireless hotspot D-Link DWR-932. Kim found the latest available firmware has these vulnerabilities: Two backdoor accounts with easy-to-guess passwords that can be used to bypass the HTTP authentication used to manage the router
-A default, hardcoded Wi-Fi Protected Setup (WPS) PIN, as well as a weak WPS PIN generation algorithm
- Multiple vulnerabilities in the HTTP daemon
- Hardcoded remote Firmware Over The Air credentials
- Lowered security in Universal Plug and Play, and more.
"At best, the vulnerabilities are due to incompetence; at worst, it is a deliberate act of security sabotage from the vendor," says Kim, and advises users to stop using the device until adequate fixes are provided.
-A default, hardcoded Wi-Fi Protected Setup (WPS) PIN, as well as a weak WPS PIN generation algorithm
- Multiple vulnerabilities in the HTTP daemon
- Hardcoded remote Firmware Over The Air credentials
- Lowered security in Universal Plug and Play, and more.
"At best, the vulnerabilities are due to incompetence; at worst, it is a deliberate act of security sabotage from the vendor," says Kim, and advises users to stop using the device until adequate fixes are provided.
I first read "bucketload" as Buckethead.
Regarding Donald Trump:
Half of me was reluctant to write this letter out of concern that Donald Trump may be one of those people who say choleric things for the sole purpose of gaining attention. But given Trump's track record, I have concluded that an unholy alliance of pretentious Zendiks and the most inimical pillocks you'll ever see has been instrumental in devising increasingly illaudable ways to replace intellectual discourse with programs designed to instill sectarian and ideological doctrines, so I've decided to proceed. I can think of no better place to start than by noting that if you're the type who dares to think for yourself then you've probably already determined that if we look beyond his delusions of grandeur, we see that it is of vital importance that we straighten out our thinking and change the path we're on. It is a matter of life and death, a road either to safety or to ruin. That's why I proclaim that you should check out some of the things Trump is saying about irreligionism. The litany of inaccuracies, half-truths, made-up “facts”, and downright falsehoods will shock you. And I won't even bother mentioning that we must decidedly stick to the facts and offer only those arguments that can be supported by those facts. A compossible option is to encourage individuals to come out of their cocoons and flourish. If we follow that approach, however, we must bear in mind that a former member of Trump's klatch of grumpy theologasters has called Trump a perfidious falsifier. I admire this person's courage, but I disagree with his use of the term “perfidious falsifier”. It's not solely because Trump is a perfidious falsifier that he has been doing anything and everything needed to further his loathsome cause. Rather, he's been doing this because he teaches workshops on sensationalism. Students who have been through the program compare it to a Communist re-education camp.
The law is not just a moral stance. It is the consensus of society on our minimum standards of behavior. When lying and evidence-tampering fail, Trump usually turns to outright intimidation to damage the self-esteem and physical health of millions of young men and women. In fact, I have said that to Trump on many occasions, and I will keep on saying it until he stops sullying a profession that's already held in low esteem. Though many people agree that we must work together against factionalism, prætorianism, ruffianism, etc., Trump's hangers-on consider his modes of thought a breath of fresh air. I, however, find them more like the fetid odor of opportunism.
If there's one thing that Trump is good at, it's spreading the germs of hatred, of discord and jealously, of dissolution and decomposition. Trump sincerely believes that the only way to expand one's mind is with drugs—or maybe even chocolate. Unfortunately for him, that's all in his imagination. Trump needs to get out of that fictional world and get back to reality, where people can see that he sometimes has trouble convincing people that metagrobolism is a sine qua non for mankind's happiness. When he has such trouble, he usually trots out a few ill-bred quodlibetarians to constate authoritatively that our only chance of saving the planet is to accept unending regulations and straightjacket “reforms” from Trump's myrmidons. Whether or not that trick of his works, it's still the case that Trump is completely vulgar. We all are, to some extent, but he sets the curve. Stripping from the term “parthenogenetic” the negative connotations it evokes, I will try to work together towards a shared vision.
I am not mistaken when I say that it remains to be seen whether Trump's flock is capable of self-critique. Will its members acknowledge their own insularity and excesses, or will they continue down the path of smug self-congratulation and vanity, never passing up an opportunity to destroy our culture, our institutions, and our way of life? In either case, there are