IP: Security flaw found in Alcatel's high-speed modems: [risks] Risks Digest 21.35

[David Farber <dave@farber.net>]

>Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2001 17:06:38 -0400
>From: Monty Solomon <monty@roscom.com>
>Subject: Security flaw found in Alcatel's high-speed modems
>
>Security flaw found in Alcatel's high-speed modems, By Tim Nott
>
>It's a security flaw. No, it's a spy. No, it doesn't exist at all.  Tsutomu
>Shimomura, better known for his contribution to, and book about, the arrest
>of hacker Kevin Mitnick claims to have found a "trapdoor" in Alcatel ADSL
>modems. On Monday evening, Liberation reported, Shimomura and San Diego
>Supercomputer Centre colleague Thomas Perrine reported their findings to the
>Computer Emergency Response Team. The point, continued Liberation, is
>simple. Anyone can penetrate a computer system linked to the Internet by
>Alcatel 1000 ADSL and Speed Touch Home modems.
>
>http://www.thestandardeurope.com/article/display/0,1151,16251,00.html



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