Potential Security Concerns in Comcast Hotspot Class-Action

Cable and Internet service conglomerate Comcast is facing a class-action lawsuit stemming from its use of customer routers as personal home Wi-Fi networks as well as public-facing wireless hotspots available for other Comcast-Xfinity customers. Toyer Grear and Jocelyn Harris, themselves and on...

Hackers exploiting Router vulnerabilities to hack Bank accounts through DNS Hijacking

In past months, we have reported about critical vulnerabilities in many wireless Routers including Netgear, Linksys, TP-LINK, Cisco, ASUS, TENDA and more vendors, installed by millions of home users worldwide. Polish Computer Emergency Response Team CERT Polska recently noticed a large scale cybe...

Researcher Owns Internal Network after Victim Opens Email

Security researcher Bogdan Calin found that he could remotely compromise the internal networks of users with default or weak router passwords merely by compelling them to open a legitimate looking email on their iPhone, iPad, or Mac. Writing for the Acunetix blog, Calin explains that he has found...

Gigafast/CompUSA router (model EE400-R) vulnerabilities

This router is/was widely sold in CompUSA stores. It is a Gigafast router, re-branded as a CompUSA router. All firmware versions are affected. When reported to the manufacturer on 5/13/04, I had received a response stating that the information would be passed on to firmware developer. Almost a ye...

Multiple Gigafast EE400-R router vulnerabilities

DoS, configuration access including administration password in cleartext...

3Com 3CRADSL72 ADSL Wireless Router - Information Disclosure / Authentication Bypass

source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/11408/info 3Com 3CRADSL72 is reported prone to an information disclosure, and an authentication bypass vulnerability. This issue can allow a remote attacker to disclose sensitive information such as the router name, primary and secondary DNS servers,...

CVE-2001-1210

Cisco ubr900 series routers that conform to the Data-over-Cable Service Interface Specifications DOCSIS standard must ship without SNMP access restrictions, which can allow remote attackers to read and write information to the MIB using arbitrary community strings...

Lucent Ascend MAX 5.0Pipeline 6.0TNT 1.02.0 Router - MAX UDP Port 9 (1)

Lucent Ascend MAX 5.0Pipeline 6.0TNT 1.02.0 Router - MAX UDP Port 9 1 / source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/714/info Certain versions of Ascends Lucent router software listen on port 9 UDP Discard. Ascend provides configuration tools for MAX and Pipeline routers that locate locally installe...