[Gllug] r.e. BT ADSL router 5861

[Chris Bell]

On Sat 24 Aug, Stuart Aird wrote:
> 
> Hello, I saw your post at
> http://list.ftech.net/pipermail/gllug/2002-February.txt and so I thought
> that I would write on the off chance that you have any info on the routers
> further to what you wrote, especialy regarding the BT set-up, I have had an
> intrusion into my network from outside, my router was mearly routing packets
> backwards and forwards for my linux box that does NAT, but someone who
> hacked into my server has then hacked into the BT box, as if i visit a web
> page or make any network request it appears to come from the i.p. of my
> router, as apposed to from my server that does NAT, I presume that because
> they were comeing into the router from the inside, I am presumeing trusted
> interface(10 BaseT), that the router has allowed them to log on to it, any
> ideas etc ?
> 
> Do you know if the unmodified BT router uses the same comand structure as
> the comercial product ?
> 
> 
> ok Thanks in advance for any help or light that you might shed on the
> situation,
> 
> Stuart
> 
> stuart at zizigy.net
> 
> 
   There was a patch issued for a recent security problem with SSH remote
access, you may have had a problem via port forwarding if this had not been
applied, allowing access direct to your system. Access to the ADSL setup
would have been easy if the password had not been changed from default. 

-- 
Chris Bell


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