Virgin Media SuperHub: 7 second security flaw

[xxMATTGxx]

Anyone who is with Virgin Media and has the SuperHub should read the following article:

http://ramblingrant.co.uk/2014/03/06...security-flaw/


Stop using default passwords on your router control panels. Change the password today.

[scottish]

Common sense really, like I said on twitter something vm could technically fix very easily (with regards to the changeme rather than 7 second flaw)

[David]

mines gets changed regularly anyway

[mrwoooooooo]

no-one is going to sit outside your house and wait for your router to be restarted.

[FlyingJesus]

Not entirely convinced that the old people next door are going to write a program to force my router to reboot just so they can use my wifi

[xxMATTGxx]

no-one is going to sit outside your house and wait for your router to be restarted.

Not entirely convinced that the old people next door are going to write a program to force my router to reboot just so they can use my wifi

And you shouldn't be leaving the default admin password on the router. Surely?

[mrwoooooooo]

And you shouldn't be leaving the default admin password on the router. Surely?

why not? no-one knows the password to connect to it?

[scottish]

don't need to, can join during the 7 seconds of booting and change it for you

[FlyingJesus]

And you shouldn't be leaving the default admin password on the router. Surely?

I haven't but it's still a stupid scenario

[peteyt]

Common sense really, like I said on twitter something vm could technically fix very easily (with regards to the changeme rather than 7 second flaw)

Sites often use changeme as default passwords to and I find it a very bad practise. A lot of routers now use things like the serial number or something else unique as the password which is a lot better as face it, there's lot's of people out there who probably know nothing about routers