RE: Don't click that link - it may re-program your router?

[Blanchard_Michael () emc com]

 hehe, yup!  But that's a whole different issue.  Reminds me of the movie Wargames and the backdoor in the WoPR 
computer :-)


Michael P. Blanchard 
Antivirus / Security Engineer, CISSP, GCIH, CCSA-NGX, MCSE
Office of Information Security & Risk Management 
EMC ² Corporation 
4400 Computer Dr. 
Westboro, MA 01580 


-----Original Message-----
From: Michal Zalewski [mailto:lcamtuf () dione ids pl] 
Sent: Tuesday, February 20, 2007 10:10 AM
To: Blanchard, Michael (InfoSec)
Cc: gary () intrepid com; funsec () linuxbox org
Subject: RE: [funsec] Don't click that link - it may re-program your router?

On Tue, 20 Feb 2007 Blanchard_Michael () emc com wrote:

> to me the whole deal is simply a reminder to change passwords from
> default if they're not already.

And hope you don't have hidden "service" accounts that are not visible
through GUI, of course. Like Siemens DSL modems and their "userNotUsed" /
"userNotU"...

/mz


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