On 04/01/18 10:50, Kiwi User wrote:
> On Thu, 04 Jan 2018 05:23:43 +0000, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
>
>> The whole world?
>>
>> That would be me and just who?
>>
>> No one else is on the network
>>
> This may be teaching grandma to suck eggs, but... are you sure - IOW do
> you know that your external LAN interface is secure? Have you tested it?

Of course

>
> A surprising number of them aren't, having 'features' such as exposing
> their admin port to the outside world as well as to the LAN and default
> admin passwords which a lot of people never change.
>

The only hole in mine is to a printer.

Good luck pwning that, when its mostly off.


> I hardened mine so that, according to Gibson Research Labs Shields-Up
> tool [*], it now leaves nothing visible to the outside world.  This
> required configuration changes from its default setup as well as a
> password change.
>
> [*]  https://www.grc.com/x/ne.dll?bh0bkyd2
>
>


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