Re: Over 135 million modems vulnerable to denial-of-service flaw
That zdnet article is erroneous and inaccurate.
Resetting those cable modems does nothing but cause them to reboot and reload a config file.
BUT, an attacker has to be ON a PRIVATE RFC 1918 network, inaccessible from the Internet in ALL cases.
They would also have to connect to each modem in order to accomplish said feat. It would take a very long time to scan the entire address space and find any modems in it.
Article grade, D--.
read more and respond »Posted 5 years ago by Anonymous Remailer (austria) in Cable Modems
