Posted on 11/28/2016 4:55:17 PM PST by COBOL2Java
The affected routers were used by the Deutsche Telekom customers also for fixed telephony and TV services.
The problems lasted at least two days, the outage began on Sunday, November 27, at around 17:00, local time.
(Excerpt) Read more at securityaffairs.co ...
It is not clear which is the threat that compromised the Deutsche Telekom routers, experts speculated the involvement of a malware that could have prevented equipment from connecting to the company’s network.Security experts from ISC Sans published an interesting report that revealed a significant increase in scans and exploitation attempts for a SOAP Remote Code Execution (RCE) vulnerability via port 7547 against Speedport routers.
Trump’s fault!
Admin Moderator, put in Breaking because it could be the beginnings of more cyber attacks. But alter if you deem otherwise. Thanks!
At any rate, doesn’t look good.
It will be used to question the election
I confess ignorance: is this on UNIX?
Obviously caused by excesses and incompetence of the Trump Transition Team.
I don’t know why ppl bother to inform the mods they can change a post. Does anyone think the mods don’t know this or that they need our permission?
Not only that but they changed the name of everything on the map. Poland is now called Polska. Denmark is now Danmark. The bastards!
Never buy German crap. It is made by a bunch of leftist altruist who lost their entire national identity. I have no care about these people any more.
And all this 2 days after Obama and Merkel announced we must “Stop fake news”
Of course they can change it without our permission. It's common courtesy, one gentleman to another. A lost practice in this age, I guess.
I might add, yours is a curious comment considering your Freeper name...
“Never buy German crap. It is made by a bunch of leftist altruist who lost their entire national identity. I have no care about these people any more.”
They don’t make the gear, they are reselling gear from another (non-german) manufacturer.
Looks like they were trying to be rolled into a Mirai botnet but failed.
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-deutsche-telekom-outages-idUSKBN13N12K
They are way to expensive by double!!
I can’t argue with that.
These appear to be i.e. cable modems. Things that would affect normal residences, nearly a million German homes in this case.
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