[Ars Technica] : Easter egg: DSL router patch merely hides backdoor

[The_Unbeliever]

First, DSL router owners got an unwelcome Christmas present. Now, the same gift is back as an Easter egg. The same security researcher who originally discovered a backdoor in 24 models of wireless DSL routers has found that a patch intended to fix that problem doesn’t actually get rid of the backdoor—it just conceals it. And the nature of the “fix” suggests that the backdoor, which is part of the firmware for wireless DSL routers based on technology from the Taiwanese manufacturer Sercomm, was an intentional feature to begin with.

Story : Easter egg backdoor

 

[The_Unbeliever]

Hoo boy. First Heartbleed, now this.

Glad that I'm running Smoothwall for that extra protection...

 

[DrJohnZoidberg]

Hoo boy. First Heartbleed, now this.

Glad that I'm running Smoothwall for that extra protection...

Lol

Smooth... wall you say. :erm:

 

[HavocXphere]

How fkin retarded can one be?

"Oh look half the worlds security researchers are reading articles about a vulnerability in our product...lets screw up the fix to cement our image of incompetence."

Thankfully its not vulnerable to port scanning at least...that would have been a massacre.

edit...don't mods get shot for external links?