{"id":548366,"date":"2006-03-28T07:43:23","date_gmt":"2006-03-28T07:43:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/wordpress\/technology\/548366-adsl-user-account-details-freely-available-due-to-poor-security.html"},"modified":"2006-03-28T07:43:23","modified_gmt":"2006-03-28T07:43:23","slug":"adsl-user-account-details-freely-available-due-to-poor-security","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/548366-adsl-user-account-details-freely-available-due-to-poor-security.html","title":{"rendered":"ADSL user account details freely available due to poor security"},"content":{"rendered":"

Within five minutes Stirton was able to supply the usernames and passwords of a few ADSL account holders using very basic hacking techniques.<\/font> <\/p>\n

\u201cPeople who know the factory default user\/pass combinations can get into almost any router and steal your ADSL account details. They can change your settings or even set up a new username and password which will effectively lock you out of the router unless you know how to reset it to its defaults,\u201d Stirton said.<\/font> <\/p>\n

To secure their ADSL account information users simply need to change their default router login details. In simple terms, change your router password to something only you will know.<\/font> <\/p>\n

\u201cIt must be understood though that this is nobody else’s fault but the person who set up the router. The absolute first thing to do when you get a router\/modem is to change the default login username and passwords,\u201d he continued.<\/font> <\/p>\n

Unauthorized multiple logins have been a problem for many ADSL users, and it this poor router security which may be to blame in many of these cases.<\/font> <\/p>\n

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Many ADSL users are vulnerable to account theft due to poor router setup. Gregg Stirton, founder of the well known website Hellkom, has alerted MyADSL to this problem and demonstrated how easy it is to gain access to ADSL account information.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-548366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548366"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=548366"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548366\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=548366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=548366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=548366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}