[Cialug] ISPs and patching routers

[Scott Yates]

I have always thought port knocking was a great idea.  It is not perfect,
but short of someone watching all traffic to your box, it should keep out a
LOT of the kiddies.

On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 9:42 AM, Adam Hill <adam at diginc.us> wrote:

> One of my benched side projects is setting up knockd (port knocker) on my
> dd-wrt router so I don't have to leave it's web interface open to be found
> by port scanners and can open port forwards by port knocks.
>
> On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 9:12 AM, David Champion <dchamp1337 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > dd-wrt / openwrt are one of the targets of this attack as well. If you're
> > not up to date, or haven't configured it correctly, you may have
> problems.
> >
> > -dc
> >
> > On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 9:08 AM, Nathan C. Smith <nathan.smith at ipmvs.com
> > >wrote:
> >
> > > Here is a related article:
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
> https://www.securelist.com/en/blog/208193852/The_tale_of_one_thousand_and_one_DSL_modems
> > >
> > > This one makes it sound like an A-V company was having trouble
> > determining
> > > how the computer was being manipulated and redirected because it was
> > being
> > > done outside the computer through the DSL modem.
> > >
> > > May you live in interesting times.
> > >
> > > -Nate
> > >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: cialug-bounces at cialug.org [mailto:cialug-bounces at cialug.org] On
> > > Behalf Of Josh More
> > > Sent: Tuesday, October 02, 2012 8:53 AM
> > > To: Central Iowa Linux Users Group
> > > Subject: [Cialug] ISPs and patching routers
> > >
> > > Looks like the router attack we've long known was possible is now
> > actually
> > > being used.
> > >
> > > This would be a good time to move friends and family over to openwrt or
> > > ddwrt.  (Or an ISP that takes responsibility for security.)
> > >
> > > Details are here:
> > >
> > >
> >
> http://arstechnica.com/security/2012/10/dsl-modem-hack-infects-millions-with-malware/
> > >
> > >
> > > -Josh
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