As if you needed yet another rationality to execrate your ISP , Comcast has dropped the ball when it come to properly batten its own wireless intersection . A brace of surety investigator have expose a microbe on Comcast ’s website that allowed unauthorized disclosure of Xfinity customers ’ personal data , fit in toa report from ZDNet . All you want to ruin someone ’s day ( or attain unauthorized access to their home connection ) was an account turn and a fond address . Terrible timing , considering Comcast is in the process of launching its own line of interlocking web router .
Researchers Karan Saini and Ryan Stevenson say they expose the security measures fault on Xfinity ’s energizing Thomas Nelson Page , used by client to set up their Xfinity - make out router . By entering a user ’s Xfinity account number ( obtained via electronic mail , a mail bill , or a bit of social engineering ) , along with the house or apartment number , the researchers were able to obtain a exploiter ’s full address , along with their router SSID and password .
Malicious someone could take advantage of the lax security measures and use that accession to rename the router and commute the password to lock away substance abuser out of their own web . Even if empower users changed the password themselves , put down the aforesaid data would yield the updated wifi password .
“ Within time of day of encyclopedism of this issue , we exclude it down , ” a Comcast spokesperson severalise Gizmodo . “ At no time did this site enable anyone to get at client ’ personal usernames and passwords and we have no reason to think that any account information was accessed . We are conducting a thoroughgoing investigation and will take all necessary steps to ensure that this does n’t happen again . ”
To avoid the subject entirely , you could alwayspurchase your own WLAN router , which does n’t share its SSID or word information with Xfinity . Hell , you should probablybuy your own cable modem while you ’re at it , if only to get rid of the ridiculous monthly surcharge associated with modem and routers .
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