Ars breaks Misfortune Cookie vulnerability news to public

Jay Ashworth jra at baylink.com
Fri Dec 19 22:54:03 UTC 2014


While the flaw is 12 years old and the fix 9, the article suggests that
firmware for consumer routers may yet be being built with the vulnerable
webserver code baked in.

If you are responsible for lots of eyeballs you might want to look at this.

http://arstechnica.com/security/2014/12/12-million-home-and-business-routers-vulnerable-to-critical-hijacking-hack/

Have a nice Christmas weekend.  :-)

Cheers,
-- jra

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