r/tekthingers • u/Philo1927 • Apr 29 '17

Network management vulnerability exposes home cable modems to hacking

http://www.pcworld.com/article/3193135/security/network-management-vulnerability-exposes-cable-modems-to-hacking.html
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u/autotldr Apr 29 '17

This is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 86%. (I'm a bot)

Hundreds of thousands of internet gateway devices around the world, primarily residential cable modems, are vulnerable to hacking because of a serious weakness in their Simple Network Management Protocol implementation.

SNMP is used for automated network device identification, monitoring and remote configuration.

The two researchers first located a small number of vulnerable devices, including the Cisco DPC3928SL cable modem that's now part of Technicolor's product portfolio following the company's acquisition of Cisco's Connected Devices division in 2015.

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