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Had experience with multiple ISP's pushing their own heavily marked-up and broken routers. I assume its a good money maker. If only there was a slither of cor
by ShorsHammer 9y ago
Had experience with multiple ISP's pushing their own heavily marked-up and broken routers. I assume its a good money maker.
If only there was a slither of
corporate responsibility and associated punishment, probably a big ask from governments benefiting handsomely from the vulnerabilities despite the loss to the citizens they represent.
Guess it could be considered a new form of taxation? National security only really extends the physical domain.
- dcow 9y agoI don't really think this is one of those cases unless I missed some trend recently where the govt is using misconfigured routers to access home networks... This is an overly scary article about running upnp on the wrong interface.
- ShorsHammer 9y agoSorry perhaps I don't understand your point, but the research in this article is entirely about governments and bad actors penetrating home networks for their own use.[1] Are you suggesting private APT's exist? Seen no evidence so far that it's anyone but a dozen nations who lamely try to rebrand every now and then. UPnP is a world of trouble in general, but even moreso for the average person disabling it in a house full of kids. There's needs to be responsibility taken by any large tech company pushing insecure products on their customers. [1] researchers at Symantec had uncovered parts of this proxy network due to their ongoing investigation into the “Inception Framework,” and the APT group behind it.
- dcow 9y agoSorry perhaps I don't understand your point, but the research is about governments and bad actors penetrating home networks for their own use. Source? This isn't a new report. All it talks about is that misconfigured upnp is used by one APT framework (see: https://www.symantec.com/blogs/threat-intelligence/inception-framework-hiding-behind-proxies https://www.symantec.com/blogs/threat-intelligence/inception...).
- vuln 9y agoUmm... It was leaked the CIA (the US government exploited home routers... https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/06/advanced-cia-firmware-turns-home-routers-into-covert-listening-posts/ https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/06/advan...