{"id":611,"date":"2007-02-25T00:00:33","date_gmt":"2007-02-25T06:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/slidingconstant.net\/?p=611"},"modified":"2025-09-20T16:10:22","modified_gmt":"2025-09-20T21:10:22","slug":"entry-106","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/slidingconstant.net\/?p=611","title":{"rendered":"Home router vulnerability"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This one\u2019s going to be a little dry, but it\u2019s actually a bit of a public service announcement for friends. For anyone who has a home router appliance (from Linksys, Netgear, D-Link, etc.) on their incoming cable modem\/DSL service, double check and make sure you have changed the administrator password on the box to something other than the default.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Some folks have come up with a successful attack that they term \u201cdrive-by pharming\u201d where they trick your web browser into logging into your router and changing settings to allow external attacks on your computers. Most SOHO routers come set by default to not allow connections from the outside Internet. However, this attack makes use of your browser so that the attack comes from inside your network (by way of your computer\u2019s browser). The good news is that the attack is completely dependent on you leaving your router set to its default IP address and password. If you change the administrator password, you\u2019re safe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This one\u2019s going to be a little dry, but it\u2019s actually a bit of a public service announcement for friends. For anyone who has a home router appliance (from Linksys, Netgear, D-Link, etc.) on their incoming cable modem\/DSL service, double check and make sure you have changed the administrator password on the box to something [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[7],"class_list":["post-611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-geekiness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/slidingconstant.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/slidingconstant.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/slidingconstant.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slidingconstant.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slidingconstant.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=611"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/slidingconstant.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1641,"href":"https:\/\/slidingconstant.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611\/revisions\/1641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/slidingconstant.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slidingconstant.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slidingconstant.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}