<div dir="ltr"><div>"It's the first thing I do with any piece of electronics, personally...."<br><br></div>+1 on that.  This is what the public need to be educated on.<br>
</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 11 March 2014 12:22, David Aldred <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:davidaldred@gmail.com" target="_blank">davidaldred@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="">On 11 March 2014 12:08, Jason Irwin <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jasonirwin73@gmail.com" target="_blank">jasonirwin73@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>

<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">Got the SuperHub in "modem-mode"? No?<br>
You may wish to reconsider:<br>
<a href="http://forums.theregister.co.uk/forum/1/2014/03/10/virgin_media_router_snafu/" target="_blank">http://forums.theregister.co.uk/forum/1/2014/03/10/virgin_media_router_snafu/</a></blockquote><div><br></div><div><br>

</div></div>But you only need to consider it if you haven't changed the default password; as the article says:<div><br></div><div>"<span style="line-height:21px;font-size:14px;font-family:Arial,FreeSans,Helvetica,sans-serif">Fortunately the attack would be difficult to pull off in practice - and is easily prevented by changing the default password, which Virgin encourages all its customers to do when they are first installed.</span><span style="line-height:21px;font-size:14px;font-family:Arial,FreeSans,Helvetica,sans-serif">"</span></div>

<div><br></div><div>It's the first thing I do with any piece of electronics, personally.... </div></div></div></div>
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