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Home Routers Under Attack by NSA-Spawned Malware: What to D
tomsguide.com ^ | 11/29/2018 | Marshall Honorof · Editor

Posted on 11/30/2018 6:44:46 AM PST by BenLurkin

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1 posted on 11/30/2018 6:44:46 AM PST by BenLurkin
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To: KC_Lion; Lazamataz

Of possible interests.


2 posted on 11/30/2018 6:45:34 AM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: BenLurkin

Your Tax Dollars once again at work.


3 posted on 11/30/2018 6:50:47 AM PST by Buckeye McFrog
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To: BenLurkin

My Netgear router is 3 or so years old, so I guess it’s vulnerable. We have to get the enclosed, boxy wi-fi routers with the hidden antennas because the cat chews up the antennas if they are exposed.


4 posted on 11/30/2018 6:51:31 AM PST by Stevenc131
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To: BenLurkin

The most recent slew of attacks comes from an exploit that Akamai calls “EternalSilence” in a nod to the NSA-developed “Eternal” family of malicious code injections.

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Yet another case where a U.S. spy agency is hurting its own citizens. Between outright incompetence, such as ignoring warnings about the Boston Marathon bomber, to culpability, like the Las Vagas mass shooting, our spy agencies are a clear and present danger to the public.


5 posted on 11/30/2018 6:53:45 AM PST by Flick Lives
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6 posted on 11/30/2018 6:55:40 AM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: BenLurkin

It’s impossible to tell if you’re infected - but the answer is to go out, spend $100 and buy a new router.

Lemme think....

Nah.


7 posted on 11/30/2018 6:57:12 AM PST by Pravious
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To: BenLurkin

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8 posted on 11/30/2018 7:04:01 AM PST by sjm_888
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To: BenLurkin; Army Air Corps
Oh Great.

Nothing is safe.

9 posted on 11/30/2018 7:06:18 AM PST by KC_Lion (If you want on First Lady Melania's, Ivanka Trump's or Sarah Palin's Ping Lists, just let me know.)
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To: BenLurkin

Heh, another Windows problem eh? Don’t see any Apple products listed in the article.


10 posted on 11/30/2018 7:08:27 AM PST by Afterguard (Deplorable me!)
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To: Flick Lives

Agency executives and their sycophant bureaucrats put their interests and careers first. They don’t have much fear or incentive to do otherwise.

Standards for accountability, professional integrity and performance expectations have to start at the top and be enforced down through the cabinet members and be driven into the executive branch bureaucracies. The problem is, no one in government is ever held accountable for anything.


11 posted on 11/30/2018 7:14:06 AM PST by Starboard
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To: BenLurkin
Yet another reason that I won't own a rooter* that can't be flashed with one of the high-zoot third-party firmware alternatives, such as DD-WRT or Tomato.

My personal favorite is DD-WRT but their price of admission is pretty dear because their user forum is famously caustic (but they seem to be getting less belligerent), which can make getting your foot in the door exasperating.


* "router" as pronounced by the typical Bangalorean tech support agent.

12 posted on 11/30/2018 7:14:16 AM PST by Paal Gulli
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“Heh, another Windows problem eh? Don’t see any Apple products listed in the article.”

Perhaps it’s because Apple does not make routers anymore...


13 posted on 11/30/2018 7:18:38 AM PST by BBB333 (The Power Of Trump Compels You!)
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To: Afterguard

> Heh, another Windows problem eh? Don’t see any Apple
> products listed in the article.

I don’t see linux listed, either, and you can get a linux device for a LOT less than an aplle anything.


14 posted on 11/30/2018 7:19:24 AM PST by Westbrook (Children do not divide your love, they multiply it)
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To: BenLurkin
UPnp was an attempt by M$ to make networking easier. Which it did. For the bad guys.

For your computer, go here:

https://www.grc.com/unpnp/unpnp.htm

Download and run the tiny program and secure your computer.

Securing the router is a bit harder but the theory is the same.

Here is another link to test UPnP on your network:

https://www.grc.com/x/ne.dll?bh0bkyd2

For the old timers here, this is all Steve Gibson stuff, maker of SpinRite.

And it is all free.

15 posted on 11/30/2018 7:22:00 AM PST by texas booster (Join FreeRepublic's Folding@Home team (Team # 36120) Cure Alzheimer's!)
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To: Pravious
I also should note that several of the newer rooters come from the factory with a derivative of the DD-WRT or Tomato third-party firmwares pre-installed. My main WiFi rooter at the moment is an ASUS that came with Tomato installed (which I have updated with a 'fork' of that firmware that takes me still a little further off the beaten path).


"It’s impossible to tell if you’re infected - but the answer is to go out, spend $100 and buy a new router...."

That is nowhere stated. The article further states that a "factory reset" will remove the infection. So easy a cave man could do it.

16 posted on 11/30/2018 7:29:13 AM PST by Paal Gulli
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To: texas booster

Bkmrk.


17 posted on 11/30/2018 7:31:24 AM PST by RushIsMyTeddyBear (:¬| Beep beep....boop boop)
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To: Afterguard
disable UPnP

Or...disable Windows. Get Linux. The ultimate Windows Service Pack.

18 posted on 11/30/2018 7:34:50 AM PST by Bloody Sam Roberts (Perhaps we should be less concerned about who we might offend and more concerned with who we inspire)
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Fyi


19 posted on 11/30/2018 7:36:28 AM PST by House Atreides (BOYCOTT the NFL, its products and players 100% - PERMANENTLY)
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I got:

Your Internet port 139 does not appear to exist!
One or more ports on this system are operating in FULL STEALTH MODE! Standard Internet behavior requires port connection attempts to be answered with a success or refusal response. Therefore, only an attempt to connect to a nonexistent computer results in no response of either kind. But YOUR computer has DELIBERATELY CHOSEN NOT TO RESPOND (that’s very cool!) which represents advanced computer and port stealthing capabilities. A machine configured in this fashion is well hardened to Internet NetBIOS attack and intrusion.
Unable to connect with NetBIOS to your computer.
All attempts to get any information from your computer have FAILED. (This is very uncommon for a Windows networking-based PC.) Relative to vulnerabilities from Windows networking, this computer appears to be VERY SECURE since it is NOT exposing ANY of its internal NetBIOS networking protocol over the Internet.

And the other tests had everything “stealth”.


20 posted on 11/30/2018 7:38:12 AM PST by Salamander (My Soul's On Fire...)
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