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Red Squirrel said:
lol is that yours? I thought you were a network guy. Secure your stuff. 😛 But this is OT, I just thought I'd mention as it's a pretty big security hole.
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You would have done it through a PM if you were serious, but like everything you fail.

Get inside there if you are that good.
 
alkemyst said:
You would have done it through a PM if you were serious, but like everything you fail.

Get inside there if you are that good.
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I did not know it was yours I just assumed it might be someone here as someone else may have done an edit too.

I'm not a hacker, I'm just saying it's pretty stupid to leave that open to the outside. Someone who is a hacker and knows what they're doing can easily gain full access to your network if there is an exploit in that software or they may just use a bot to brute force the password.
 
I always made my routers remotely accessible when I could. It was very important for me to test things.

From what I've heard, there are now well-known security exploits affecting most of the popular older consumer-grade routers. The exploits I've heard of don't require remote administration to be enabled.

Anyway, I have no way to access my current router (Apple AirPort Extreme 5th gen) remotely. From what I can tell, you need a Mac to do it. I can't even do remote access from the iOS app. I just connect to my PC using Remote Desktop Connection and use the AirPort utility from there.

Damn Apple won't give it a web setup...grumble grumble.
 
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Red Squirrel said:
I did not know it was yours I just assumed it might be someone here as someone else may have done an edit too.

I'm not a hacker, I'm just saying it's pretty stupid to leave that open to the outside. Someone who is a hacker and knows what they're doing can easily gain full access to your network if there is an exploit in that software or they may just use a bot to brute force the password.
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So just post it up and up again on a forum that goes directly to Google?


Well done, bro.


Do you really think hackers are looking for someone that updates Wiki's?


You fail all the freaking time here.
 
Ichinisan said:
I always made my routers remotely accessible when I could. It was very important for me to test things.

From what I've heard, there are now well-know security exploits affecting most of the popular older consumer-grade routers. The exploits I've heard of don't require remote administration to be enabled.

Anyway, I have no way to access my current router (Apple AirPort Extreme 5th gen) remotely. From what I can tell, you need a Mac to do it. I can't even do remote access from the iOS app. I just connect to my PC using Remote Desktop Connection and use the AirPort utility from there.

Damn Apple won't give it a web setup...grumble grumble.
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You are an idiot then.

You need to activate your Wonder Twin powers in this with your "brother".
 
alkemyst said:
So just post it up and up again on a forum that goes directly to Google?


Well done, bro.


Do you really think hackers are looking for someone that updates Wiki's?


You fail all the freaking time here.
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I was just being nice and pointing out a security issue. I did not know who's IP that was, someone just posted it before I did. You are the one that fails by having left that security hole open. At least use a VPN or (brute force protected) SSH tunnel if you need to access your router config remotely.
 
Ichinisan said:
Which part made me an idiot? Configuring and using a useful feature? I ran a secure / updated version of DD-WRT most of the time. Frequently checked for firmware updates too.


OK. What should we do?
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If you really cared you'd be in Networking. You guys just trollolol terribly.
 
Red Squirrel said:
I was just being nice and pointing out a security issue. I did not know who's IP that was, someone just posted it before I did. You are the one that fails by having left that security hole open. At least use a VPN or (brute force protected) SSH tunnel if you need to access your router config remotely.
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When you posted it here so Google gets it you already failed.

Based on your posts in in sub forums, you have not a clue.

Most of us are ahead of you.
 
alkemyst said:
When you posted it here so Google gets it you already failed.

Based on your posts in in sub forums, you have not a clue.

Most of us are ahead of you.
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I'm not the one that posted the IP. I just pointed out that whoever's IP that is, they have a security issue they should fix. That simple. The IP was already posted.

You might want to check if there's any updates for your MikroTik router though if you insist on keeping the management interface wide open to the outside world. Enabling SSL would maybe be a good idea too.
 
alkemyst said:
So just post it up and up again on a forum that goes directly to Google?


Well done, bro.


Do you really think hackers are looking for someone that updates Wiki's?


You fail all the freaking time here.
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God damn but you're an ass. The guy was trying to warn whoever owned that address to lock it up. He didn't know you owned it. But in typical Alky fashion you can't just say thanks, you have to make it into some blazing asshole shitfest.
 
I'm getting hacked by someone with an IP address of 127.0.0.1, so I did a trace route and...

...the hacker is inside my computer.
 
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