600,000 cable modems have an easy to pop backdoor in a backdoor

Brazilian whacks Arris for easy-t-o-guess default password, fix promised fast.
Darren Pauli
Security bod Bernardo Rodrigues has found a backdoor-within-a-backdoor affecting some 600,000 Arris cable modems.
The broadband kit company said, in a statement to El Reg, that it is working “around the clock” to fix the problems.
Rodrigues (@bernardomr), a vulnerability tester with Brazil’s Globo television network, reported the undocumented library in three Arris cable modems.
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Source: http://www.theregister.co.uk/

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