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Blogger: Time Warner Routers Still Hackable Despite Company Assurance
A blogger who stumbled across a vulnerability in more than 65,000 Time Warner Cable customer routers says the routers are still vulnerable to remote attack, despite claims by the company last week that it patched the routers. Last Tuesday, David Chen, an internet startup-founder, published information about the vulnerability in Time Warner’s SMC8014 series cable modem/Wi-Fi router combo , made by SMC. The problem would allow a hacker to remotely access the device’s administrative menu over the internet and potentially change the settings to intercept traffic, making possible all sorts of nefarious activity.
Continue reading »Time Warner Cable Exposes 65,000 Customer Routers to Remote Hacks
A vulnerability in a Time Warner cable modem and Wi-Fi router deployed to 65,000 customers would allow a hacker to remotely access the device’s administrative menu over the internet, and potentially change the settings to intercept traffic, according to a blogger who discovered the issue. Time Warner acknowledged the problem to Threat Level on Tuesday, and says it’s in the process of testing replacement firmware code from the router manufacturer, which it plans to push out to customers soon. “We were aware of the problem last week and have been working on it since,” said Time Warner spokesman Alex Dudley.
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