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posted by mrpg on Wednesday May 30 2018, @09:59AM   Printer-friendly
from the thank-you-in-Malay-sounds-like-hack-me dept.

Singaporean broadband users were left vulnerable to attackers after their ISP opened remote access ports on their modems and forgot to close them.

The discovery was made by NewSky Security researcher Ankit Anubhav, who used Shodan to scan for SingTel routers open on port 10,000 – the default Network Data Management Protocol TCP/UDP port.

Anubhav said the scan yielded 975 devices that had port 10,000 open with no protection, as a result of a fault-finding exercise gone wrong (that number is only those found on the scan).

When NewSky alerted Singapore's CERT, and that body took the issue to SingTel, Anubhav said the root cause was that SingTel enabled port 10,000 to troubleshoot a problem with the SingTel-branded routers (the “Wi-Fi Gigabit Router” is supplied by Arcadyan).


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  • (Score: 0, Disagree) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 30 2018, @10:20AM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 30 2018, @10:20AM (#686201)

    the ISP had since closed the ports.

    and the person responsible for the oversight is now serving 227 consecutive life sentences in a maximum security prison.

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  • (Score: 2) by realDonaldTrump on Thursday May 31 2018, @12:18PM

    by realDonaldTrump (6614) on Thursday May 31 2018, @12:18PM (#686686) Homepage Journal

    Folks die and come back to life. It happened to Jesus, it happens to many people. But 127 times is a lot. That's very rare and very special. Terrible experience, who wants that, right? As far as I'm concerned, let me die once. Or not at all. Not this thing where you die, you come back, you die again over and over.

    But what I love about Singapore, they have the death penalty. And they use the death penalty, they used to use it A LOT, not as much anymore. And they do death penalty for the drugs. They catch you with cannabis -- we call it marihuana -- a pound of that, they can hang you for it. And the opioid, they have ZERO problems with opioid. Because they hang the opioid sellers.

    But unfortunately they don't have death penalty for cyber crime. And you see what happens, it's not a pretty picture. Not pretty at all. But maybe they'll do that. And maybe we'll do it. Our Internet is totally out of control, just like theirs is.