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Singaporean ISP Popped Router Ports, Saving Customers The Trouble Of Making Themselves Hackable

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

Arthur T Knackerbracket has found the following story:

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: 3, Funny) by AssCork on Wednesday May 30 2018, @05:46PM (3 children)

    by AssCork (6255) on Wednesday May 30 2018, @05:46PM (#686375) Journal

    Let me spell this out for you;

    • The internet is like a high school dance.
    • The router is your sister.
    • Her date to the prom (dance) is the Singapore ISP.
    • and the adjective is what happened to her on prom night.
    --
    Just popped-out of a tight spot. Came out mostly clean, too.
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  • (Score: 2) by wonkey_monkey on Wednesday May 30 2018, @07:08PM

    by wonkey_monkey (279) on Wednesday May 30 2018, @07:08PM (#686415) Homepage

    The ports got killed by a drunk driver?

    --
    systemd is Roko's Basilisk

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 31 2018, @02:17PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 31 2018, @02:17PM (#686740)

    by AssCork

    Now we know you're a chastity cork up your sister's ass.

    • (Score: 2) by AssCork on Friday June 01 2018, @12:44PM

      by AssCork (6255) on Friday June 01 2018, @12:44PM (#687210) Journal

      a chastity cork

      "To serve and protect, now brace yourself."
      Cram!

      --
      Just popped-out of a tight spot. Came out mostly clean, too.