Hack of Alcatel Speed Touch Modems Exposes Users to Unauthorized Tampering, Network Obstruction

Trivial FTP a Serious Concern for ADSL Customers Tsutomu Shimomura, a security expert at the San Diego Supercomputing Center (best known for tracking down hacker Kevin Mitnick in 1995), has uncovered several security vulnerabilities in the Alcatel Speed Touch line of ADSL "modems." Flaws in this popular Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line router/bridge could allow an attacker to reconfigure or disable the device, and even upload code that would spy on outgoing and incoming network traffic.? (more...)