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On Thu, 31 Jan 2008 10:29:31 +0000 Simon Avery wrote: > Julian Hall wrote: > > > ' Internet criminals are targeting home broadband routers in an > > attempt to control users' internet connections...... Contrary to > > much speculation on the web, the attack does not rely on uPNP.' > > Reminds me of that famous bug in some routers, Linksys and Netgear. > Where you could post a certain string via port 6667 (ie, IRC) and > anyone affected would be disconnected. It wasn't even a malicious > string - but an valid irc command string. > > I won't post the link publically, but it's "routers that are > vulnerable to this are running vxworks as their embedded OS.". And of > course, this got around IRC and people were pasting it in busy > channels every few minutes... Haha! I missed that one. Another reason to avoid VxWorks (apart from the terrible command interface... if you can get to one). Grant. -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html