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Malicious hackers are mass exploiting a critical vulnerability in D-Link DSL routers in an attempt to make them part of Satori, the potent Internet-of-things botnet that is used to take down websites and mine digital coins, researchers said.
[...] Over the past five days, researchers said, Satori has started mass exploiting a critical vulnerability in the D-Link DSL 2750B, a combination router and DSL modem that's used by subscribers of Verizon and other ISPs. Attack code exploiting the two-year-old remote code-execution vulnerability was published last month, although Satori's customized payload delivers a worm. That means infections can spread from device to device with no end-user interaction required. D-Link's website doesn't show a patch being available for the unindexed vulnerability, and D-Link representatives didn't respond to an email seeking comment for this post.
[...] It's not immediately clear what people with a vulnerable D-Link device can do to protect themselves from these attacks. Ars has asked both D-Link and Radware to provide guidance. In the meantime, people using one should strongly consider replacing it.
(Score: 3, Informative) by RS3 on Thursday June 21 2018, @06:12PM (2 children)
I have an Aunt Peggy too! Well, she doesn't know we call her that; she's self-conscious about that dowel prosthesis.
But seriously, I laud your caution and approach wrt updates. I've found, generally, that software updates are a Good Thing, and I find them tedious enough without doing much extra work. My thick-sculled lazy approach is to have several computers, and I'll try a new update on one I can live without. It did bite me in the butt a few months ago: an update worked on 3 machines, so I ran it on this laptop, arguably my most important computer, and it blue-screened, un-bootable. Pulled the hd, plugged it in as an external on a good machine, found some complicated cryptic m$ command procedure to remove the patch, and miraculously, it lives. Whew.
Being a long-time staunch Linux freak, you'd think I would use Linux for most of my desktops. Well, it's complicated, and mostly that I get to really like a particular desktop / tools / etc., but the "updates" end up mangling it enough to force me back to Windoze. And Linus decreed "thou shalt not break userland", but the people heeded not, and the land is smitten.
(Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Thursday June 21 2018, @07:45PM (1 child)
But I can enjoy my workday only on Macintosh.
Yes I Have No Bananas. [gofundme.com]
(Score: 3, Insightful) by RS3 on Thursday June 21 2018, @09:05PM
Yes, Macontosh, sigh. I'm sure you've seen one of my favorite vids: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ks-N4rI_1RU [youtube.com]
I love MacOS but I hate Apple for not "supporting" older OSes.
While I'm ranting, wouldn't it be peachy to have just 1 OS that gets refined until it's right? Oh no, that wouldn't keep selling new OS versions to people who already own an OS.