[clug] Drive-By Pharming Attack Could Hit Home Networks

[David Symons]

On 2/17/07, Kim Holburn <kim at holburn.net> wrote:
> http://www.cbronline.com/article_news.asp?guid=B2D823D1-
> D77D-471F-96B2-0DED432A0CA2
> > Drive-By Pharming Attack Could Hit Home Networks
> > 15th February 2007
> > By Kevin Murphy
> >
> > ...
> > The attack works because most of the popular home routers ship with
> > default passwords, default internal IP address ranges, and web-
> > based configuration interfaces.
> > ...

Out of the box, my router only allowed administration via the wired
interface.  Hopefully that's a fairly universal thing, making it a
limiting factor on the effectiveness of this sort of attack.

Cheers, Dave.
-- 
David Symons
Canberra, Australia
http://www.liberatedcomputing.net