Tuesday 24 March 2009

Worm Attacking Home Routers and DSL Modems

Very good article detailing the psyb0t botnet worm.

This is the first known botnet based on exploiting consumer network devices, such as home routers and cable/dsl modems.

It stresses the importance of changing all passwords on internet facing network kit.

Use a random string of sufficient length or grab a 63 character string from GRC.