Driver Update For Speedstream 4100 Hack
What is the latest firmware update for my 5100B? The most recent software version available for the AT&T (SBC) Speedstream 5100b and 4100 modems is 1.0.0.53.
An anonymous reader writes '2Wire manufactures DSL modems and routers for AT&T and other major carriers. Their devices suffer from a DNS redirection vulnerability that can be used as part of a variety of attacks, including phishing, identity theft, and denial of service. This exploit was publicly and applies to nearly all 2Wire firmware revisions. The exploit itself is trivial to implement, requiring the attacker only to embed a specially crafted URL into a Web site or email. User interaction is not required, as the URL may be embedded as an image that loads automatically with the requested content. The 2Wire exploit bypasses any password set on the modem/router and is being. AT&T has been deploying 2Wire DSL modems and router/gateways for years, so there exists a large vulnerable installed base.
So far, AT&T/2Wire haven't done anything about this exploit.' Update: 04/09 17:48 GMT by: AT&T spokesman Seth Bloom sends word that AT&T has not been ignoring the problem. According to Bloom: 'The majority of our customers did not have gateways affected by this vulnerability.
For those that did, as soon as we became aware of the issue, we expeditiously implemented a permanent solution to close the vulnerability. In fact, we've already updated the majority of affected 2Wire gateways, and we're nearing completion of the process. We've received no reports of any significant threats targeting our customers.' I still have my old Speedstream 5100b.:) I'm not sure I get the joke, but if it's funny, it might be even funnier that, IIRC, I have a model with a lower number.
With the exception that it doesn't reset/resync after a power failure, I guess it works likes it's supposed to. On the other hand, I am concerned that should the little bugger fail, I'll have to purchase a newer model. Which means I'll end up with something with a metric ton of unwanted features. I know this isn't Ask Slashdot, but does anyone know. I second the Siemens modem and WRT54G AP.
My subscription to AT&T came with a Siemens modem. It had really bad firmware on it. It would drop the connection all the time needing a reset. I flashed it with the newest firmware from Siemens and it has been rock solid since.
I got the WRT54G before there was an L edition. I have been running HypreWRT thiobor on it, but that project seems to have disappeared so I may need to go to OpenWRT at some point. My folks have a 2Wire, I'll have to be on the look-out for. When I moved to my new place, Telus gave me a 2WIRE.
I recoiled at the clunky, bloated thing. As luck would have it, there were physical problems with my hookup (yes, this was luck, trust me) and when the Telus guy came out to fix it and realized I knew what I was doing (which made his job a hell of a lot easier) as well as gawked at my dual-monitor setup ('My wife doesn't let me buy stuff like that anymore') I asked him if there was any way to fix the friggin' 2WIRE piece of crap. He said 'well hey, tha. I would trust dslreports (aka broadbandreports) over just about any other site. I've always found that site to be invaluable when dealing with any and all broadband issues; free tools to test your connection speed and security, as well as finding information about everthing from regulatory politics, technical support, etc to comparing how well your service performs compared to the guy who lives in the next city over.
They also have some very informative forums as a lot of people who work on the technical fron. If you have an HG model, the wireless has a power setting in the user interface. I know from personal experience that it's powerful enough on full power to make my Centrino radio shut down if I set my laptop within 6 feet of my gateway.
Looking inside mine, they have 3 loop antennas, and it seems to have the best coverage from the 'front' of the gateway. And a friend of mine had a linksys adapter that had a jacked up non-standard 802.11g implementation and it only connects to a 2wire when it's set to b only m. Okay, bcat, are you saying that I can minimize my danger level by clearing all cookies each time I leave my bank's site?
I have Firefox set to clear each time I log out; but that may not be enough? A DNS server takes a name and gives you the 'physical' server that will give you that page. So if I route all your pages to my physical computer I can download the real page and send it to you as the real deal. Of course someone less honest might check the data that was entered before it passes it back. Easy, if they think it's no skin off their back for not updating their hardware, they think they can save money by not doing it. If they have 10,000 customers and it's $100 to replace one of their old modems, then it's a million bucks to swap them all out.
If they don't think there's a risk of being held responsible for more than that for not changing their hardware, where is the incentive. Hell, the security flaws typically affect the customer.
Will that stop most people's internet addictions? Of course, they can just push the firmware over their systems.
They can flag a particular update across modems in a given category, and deem it as mandatory. There's always the possibility that it might brick the modem. But it's not a 100% chance.
It's not even a good chance. Also - those modems do not cost 100 bucks, even after you include tech support man hours and shipping costs. I can't see the post you're replying to, so I can only guess that the firmware exploit is what you're referring to, but they.
I'm sure that if I was already logged into my router, that link would work, because I know the 2wire uses cookie based authentication. But why on earth would I be logged into it??? Its status pages do not require a login, so the only reason to log in would be to change something, which happens maybe once a year. And the session times out after a few minutes. TFS (The Fine Summary) says 'the 2Wire exploit bypasses any password set on the modem/router' which is blatantly false: apparently it works only. One of the worst routers I have ever had. Besides resetting itself arbitrarily, it would forget it's own settings and revert to the default, or half of the settings would revert to the default and the other half.?
Also, right before I threw it out my window, it forgot it was a wireless router completely. I mean, it reset itself one last time and quit broadcasting completely. Even the setup pages lost the wireless part. I could manually enter in the wireless setup URL, and it would show one with random values in each field.
I'm just waiting for a nice cooler day to take it to the shooting range. The manual traps and some shotgun pellets might make up for all my anguish. I've worked with these things (their 2700 gateways).
They're great modems (though really really sensitive to surges), but these guys do not know how to design the router side. Go above a couple hundred connections, and it crashes it (hitting 'refresh all' in the CS server browser will do this almost every time). Try to transfer files between wired and wireless (or vise versa) and it slows to a crawl. Best idea is put the damn thing in bridge mode and get a real router. I've got a 2701, and the thing just falls completely apart whenever I use BitTorrent. I thought it was issues with the terrible connection which I have (12-9 dB SNR), so I called a tech out to fix it (improving it to 15-12 db), but that didn't do much. I've often suspected the router itself due to the fact that this never happens when I'm maxing out my internet connection with only a couple of transactions, but that settles it.
I'm getting a new router. Alternatively, a temporarily solution that's been found is to cap the simultaneous connections limit in your bittorrent client below 100. This problem is well known at sasktel, which is why they started putting the things in bridge mode for all the extreme (highest tier) installs. The problem is the NAT software basically eating all the memory and it effectively kernel panics, with sometimes interesting results. I saw one instance where doing that would cause it to temporarily toss the bandwidth limiter an.
By default they come with 32 bit WEP You're closer to the truth than you know. They use 64 bit (i.e. 8 byte) WEP by default, which is really 40 bit (i.e.
5 byte) WEP since three of those bytes are the IV and broadcast in the clear. However, 2WIRE has an awful policy of printing the WEP key on the side of the modem in hex format and not using the digits A through F. So the default key, written in hex, is a 'decimal' number somewhere between 0,000,000,000 and 9,999,999,999.
That's only 10 billion possibilities, or about 33.2 bits of entropy. Your computer can crack through that in a day or two with only three or four captured packets.
When I discovered this (and, of course, got stonewalled by 2WIRE), I wrote a patch for aircrack (now aircrack-ng) that programs it to search only the binary coded decimal keyspace. I named this option -t in honor of ' Two Wire' for their terrible security. You can implement a temporary fix yourself. The first post in the following thread describes how to protect yourself until 2wire fixes the issue 2Wire Cross Site Request Forgery Vulnerability. Here is a short summary: First, change the IP scheme that the 2wire is using for your home network.
Specifically, change the IP address of the 2wire router itself. This will prevent attacks against 192.168.1.254. Next you have to prevent attacks against the domains 'home' and 'gateway.2wire.net'. You can do this a couple of ways.
You can modify your hosts file and point those domains to 127.0.0.1. Or you can hardcode the dns settings into your computer so that your computer is not using the 2wire to resolve domain names. Of course the bottom line is 2wire needs to plug this hole. When will that happen? From readint eh exploit you would have to visit a malicious website that sends an link that your browsers processes, the link is actually the default address of the 2wire device (198.162.1.254, OR default domain of 'home' or 'gateway.2wire.net') in this 'url' is the command to reset the password or any other configuration change. So what would happen in worse case to a default router is it could have it's configuration changed.
Whether it matters to you is dependant on how much access you give that router t. It doesn't help that the default code will always contain 0-9 for possible keys, either.
From a user perspective, I can't blame them. You wouldn't want to be on the phone with someone who thinks their wireless 'DHL' modem doesn't need power because it's wireless, and try figuring out what those tiny letters are. I think it would have been a lot more secure if they had used phrases that added up to 26 characters instead.
Lookeen 2010 Serial. But really, not many manufacturers have the balls to support secure wep by default.
For the best answers, search on this site ADSL runs about the same as DSL.its just a matter of ISP. DSL=Digital Subscriber Line ADSL=Asyncron Digital Subscriber Line all the two mean is it uses the phoneline to carry your internet connection.
Port forwarding is merely a setting that generally is only needed when using multiple desktops to do the same thing and you want to keep them synchronized to each other or open a secure connection to each (or unsecured). Overall port forwarding is not needed for setting up a home network or installing a router to an exisiting connection, wehter its Broadband, dialup, DSL or satellite, as most of these use an external modem that is configured to connect to a specific server and assign an ip address to whatever is connected to it.
If you are trying to reconfigure a modem to work with a different isp then port forwarding is not the answer, its a matter of finding out what the settings are for the new isp and logging directly into the modem to configure those settings. Firewall settings and the like are generally best left to defaults and most settings for the majority of external modems are best left alone.
You dont need any special drivers to install modem. Open up internet explorer, type 192.168.0.1 in the address bar and press enter key. Ps2 Devil Summoner Isometric Exercises here. Now you should see the configuration page of modem.
On the left side, click on Advanced button, below that, you will see 'connection configuration' option - click on it. If it asks for modem access code anywhere, you can find the code underneath the modem. Please type it *** Under this page, you have to enter the email address in username field and password, change the connection type to smart keep alive, click on save changes Now it may ask you for restart modem. Click on restart. Within 1 min, you will be connected to internet.
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