Re: Linksys Pen Test

From: Nexus (nexusat_private-way.co.uk)
Date: Wed Jun 20 2001 - 11:11:21 PDT

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    I use the BEFRS41 (DSL jobbie) myself (play nicely children) but prior to
that, me and some of the lads took it into a dark room and gave it a good
kicking.   Seems pretty robust IMHO.   The only issue I found with it was
when logging traffic, it would stop logging if the activity got too high.
But I use ummmm.... alternative logging methods ;-)
Not sure if it has already been mentioned, but the web admin is disabled
from the internet by default and doesn't listen on anything else by default
(no SNMP, telnet etc) and can do egress as well as ingress filtering, NAT,
port forwarding and the like.
Not knowing the version you are looking at makes it difficult to add more.
Besides, if you are on the internal net, who gives a toss about the firewall
? :)

Cheers.

----- Original Message -----
From: "NetW3.COM Consulting" <netw3at_private>
To: <PEN-TESTat_private>; <markat_private>
Sent: Wednesday, June 20, 2001 7:22 AM
Subject: RE: Linksys Pen Test


> Which model of Linksys are you working with and what type of netowrk
> environment? One of my clients uses a Linksys DSL router, and the
> default authentication is admin/admin unless changed manually. This is a
> model BEFRsomething (can't remember the number off the top of my head).
>
> I've not tried to pen test the device, but I imagine if you could get
> to the internal network you could open up a web browser admin session
> to the device (found by traceroute to the outside, of course, or
> on the default address 192.168.1.1 as you said).
>
> Curt Wilson
>

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