Virgin Media urges password change over hacking risk
23-06-2017, 09:20
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Virgin Media urges password change over hacking risk
Virgin Media urges password change over hacking risk
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-40371373
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Virgin Media has told 800,000 customers to change their passwords to protect against being hacked.
An investigation by Which? found that hackers could access the provider's Super Hub 2 router, allowing access to users' smart appliances.
A child's toy and domestic CCTV cameras were among the vulnerable devices.
Virgin Media said the risk was small but advised customers using default network and router passwords to update them immediately.
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Last edited by admars; 23-06-2017 at 09:25.
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23-06-2017, 09:29
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Re: Virgin Media urges password change over hacking risk
Is this the wifi password or the router login password?
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23-06-2017, 09:43
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Re: Virgin Media urges password change over hacking risk
Them seem to think they fixed the flaws last week ??
https://www.uswitch.com/broadband/ne...security_flaw/
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Virgin Media has assured customers with a Super Hub router that a security flaw has been resolved.
Researchers from Context Information Security found vulnerabilities in the Super Hub 2 and Super Hub 2AC that meant hackers could monitor traffic going in and out of the device.
This was possible because, although configuration back-ups had been encrypted, the private encryption key was identical across all UK hubs.
Virgin Media has now deployed a firmware patch that addresses this shortcoming and assured customers they are no longer at risk.
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Need to make their minds up, is it secure or not?
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23-06-2017, 09:46
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Re: Virgin Media urges password change over hacking risk
it would be sensible to change both from the default
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23-06-2017, 09:46
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Re: Virgin Media urges password change over hacking risk
It's a good idea to change your password anyway, as if the hackers have the config of the router, they will have your old password.
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23-06-2017, 09:57
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Re: Virgin Media urges password change over hacking risk
Did change my router login password from the default as soon as I got this hub a while back.
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23-06-2017, 09:59
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Re: Virgin Media urges password change over hacking risk
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Originally Posted by Stuart
It's a good idea to change your password anyway, as if the hackers have the config of the router, they will have your old password.
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l gather this flaw does not affect the SH3?.
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23-06-2017, 10:00
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Re: Virgin Media urges password change over hacking risk
Done, another password to forget though (!)
The BBC report is rubbish - 'Virgin Media has told 800,000 customers' - they haven't told me - found out via BBC News....
Last edited by Mr K; 23-06-2017 at 10:05.
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23-06-2017, 10:13
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Re: Virgin Media urges password change over hacking risk
May need to check my daughters hub for router login, was the router login password default 'password' or 'changeme' ?
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23-06-2017, 10:17
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Re: Virgin Media urges password change over hacking risk
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Originally Posted by Mr K
The BBC report is rubbish - 'Virgin Media has told 800,000 customers' - they haven't told me
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Me neither, no letters or emails or anything. This is the first I have heard about it. I am not stupid enough though to lave the default passwords in place, the very first thing I did when I got my shub was change the password and put it in modem mode
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23-06-2017, 10:32
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Re: Virgin Media urges password change over hacking risk
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Me neither, no letters or emails or anything. This is the first I have heard about it. I am not stupid enough though to lave the default passwords in place, the very first thing I did when I got my shub was change the password and put it in modem mode
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yes i'm in modem mode, begs the question, is this an issue if you are in Modem mode ? best to change it anyway i guess.
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23-06-2017, 10:44
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Re: Virgin Media urges password change over hacking risk
I don't so because in order to get to the device on your network they still need to go through your proper router.
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23-06-2017, 10:54
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Re: Virgin Media urges password change over hacking risk
We have one of these but I don't remember any of the set up so how do I check? Could someone post some clear simple information as to what users need to do and how to do it please? I have just checked an we are still using a code which is stamped on the bottom of the SH when we need to access wi-fi. Is this what needs to be changed, something else or both? Cheers as always.
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23-06-2017, 11:06
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Re: Virgin Media urges password change over hacking risk
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/
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Using publicly available hacking tools that can be found on the web, we were able to crack the router password in just a few days.
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Last edited by BenMcr; 23-06-2017 at 11:22.
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23-06-2017, 11:24
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Re: Virgin Media urges password change over hacking risk
This seems to suggest you can have an SH3 just for asking, true/false?
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