ARTICLE - openwrt/dd-wrt based modem/router vulnerability?

[Tom Wittbrodt]

Michael ODonnell wrote:
> FWIW:
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>    http://apcmag.com/new-worm-can-infect-home-modemrouters.htm
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I'm not sure if this is in anyway related but it concerned me when it 
happened:  Some time after Fair Point took over from Verizon, the admin 
pages of my VersaLink DSL router updated itself with Fair Point branding 
and a whole new interface without my having done anything.  (I don't use 
these administrative pages very often, every half year or so, and was 
very surprised to see that it had changed when I logged in to the router 
last week).

I admit I didn't read the fine print when I signed up with Verizon for 
DSL service but I wasn't aware the company providing my DSL service 
could push changes like this to my router without my involvement.   If 
Fair Point can trigger this kind of update, it leaves me wondering if 
I've got some kind of hole through which other things could come in.

-- Tom