Is your home or office internet gateway one of '1.2 MILLION' wide open to hijacking?

  • 22 October 2014
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By John Leyden, 22 Oct 2014
 
Hundreds of thousands of routers, firewalls and gateways used by small offices and homes are said to be vulnerable to hijacking due to bungled NAT settings.
The networking devices are, we're told, commonly misconfigured to allow remote attackers to reprogram how network traffic flows to PCs, servers, tablets and other machines.
 
The at-risk hardware acts as a gateway between a local network and the wider internet, and usesNAT-PMP (Network Address Translation Port Mapping Protocol) to configure how traffic from the outside world reaches machines on the LAN. For example, a computer on the local network can send a NAT-PMP request to map HTTP traffic from the internet to a web server on the LAN.
 
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