Posted Oct 3, 2012
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4.5 Million Routers Hacked Silently
The Virus Bulletin International Conference (VB2012) has just concluded in Dallas, TX, USA. And we have gotten a few stunning facts and figures from the security experts. Fabio Assolini from Kaspersky Lab has created quite a stir by disclosing that about 4.5 million routers were hacked by Brazilian hackers. Most of the hacked routers were from Brazil though. 
The router vulnerability that was used by the hackers was already known for some time (since March 2011) but most of the router vendors were either slow to update the firmware of their routers or had stopped maintaining the router. The Cybercriminals used two bash scripts and Cross site request forgery (CSRF) attack to change the admin passwords of the compromised routers. Once compromised, the DNS servers of the routers were changed. The hackers created more than 35 DNS servers for this purpose and redirected the compromised routers DNS IPs to those DNS servers. This would give them the opportunity to manipulate the IP to Name binding capability of the DNS Servers. The worst part of this attack is that the users can’t do anything about it except that they start using their custom DNS server in their local PCs instead of the routers. Or otherwise keep their routers firmware up to date. The later will only work if the router vendor has released a fix for this vulnerability. The script used by the hackers is public now and can be accessed from the exploit database. You can read more information about this exploit here. 4.5 Million Routers Hacked Silently is a post from: Technize.NET We RecommendWindows 8 Anti-Hacking TechnologyPiracy has been a huge problem for Microsoft as hackers have hacked and cracked almost all the products of Microsoft especially Microsoft Windows and Microsoft Office. In spite of Microsoft releasing technology after technology in order to counter piracy, the ... Windows Vista and Windows 7 Kernel Bug Can Bypass UACA new vulnerability has been found in User Account Control feature of Windows 7 and Windows Vista. This still unpatched vulnerability could be used by hackers to bypass the UAC feature which was introduced in Windows Vista back in 2007. ... 2 Tools To Turn Windows 7 Into Wifi HotspotWireless Routers or Wireless Access Points have to be used in places where we want to share Internet connection with multiple users wirelessly. But if you don't have a wireless access point but have a wireless enabled computer or laptop ... Microsoft Security Update April 2012 ISO Image Download [KB913086]It's the second Tuesday of April, 2012 and as usual Microsoft has released the security updates for its various products. The most important news in April is that the support for Windows XP will end on April 8, 2014. The ... | 
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