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Old 23-06-2017, 11:17   #20
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Re: Virgin Media urges password change over hacking risk

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Originally Posted by BenMcr View Post
This is talking about the default passwords printed on the bottom - mainly the wireless one, but it's also sense to update the admin one at the same time.

Details about how to change the Wireless password on all Virgin Media's Hubs are here:
https://help.virginmedia.com/system/...eless-password

And on the forum here http://community.virginmedia.com/t5/...e/ba-p/3456004

And here is how to change the admin page password:
https://help.virginmedia.com/system/...-page-password

What's missing from the BBC report is that it still took Which days to discover the default password:
http://www.which.co.uk/news/2017/06/...ssword-change/

TVM Ben.

I'm not panicking but the story reminded me about these passwords and I'm pretty sure we didn't change the default password.

Can I just ask what relevance, if any, the network name (i.e. what shows up our device in the available networks list) has in this. We didn't change that either, it's just the VM generated one (beginning VM...) which appeared during set up. Do we need to change that also or doesn't that matter?
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