On Wednesday 30 November 2005 17:52, Abhishek Daga wrote:
Couple of things to be taken care of when using The
Best DSL
service in Mumbai.
1) Please change router password from default "admin".
By going into the router--->Status, I can get my router's IP
address.
The first thing u do with a new host / service is change ALL default
passwords.
If I keep trying the IPs directly in ascending or descending serial
order, sure enough I will reach other routers and where the default
password is admin. Not that I can gain anything out of it,
U can rig the firewall rules to allow forwarding and gain access to
the host. Hopefully people have a sane password + policy on the host
to prevent access.
but can
fiddle around with the settings and make it difficult for the other
person. OR simply enable remote telnet management/web management
and try and exploit those.
Changing the admin password is a good first step.
2) The login/password (phone number/CA number) will work from any
modem/location which has DSL enabled.
Change the password from the ca number to something else.
Does it warrant sending it to the papers?
I think not. With the number of clueless m$ users around u would have
major problem. U are going to have a major problem anyway, but why
precipitate it.
rgds
jtd