Netgear and ZyXEL Confirm NetUSB Flaw, Are Working On Fixes 34
itwbennett writes: In follow-up to a story that appeared on Slashdot yesterday about a critical vulnerability in the NetUSB service, networking device manufacturers ZyXEL Communications and Netgear have confirmed that some of their routers are affected and said they are working on fixes. ZyXEL will begin issuing firmware updates in June, while Netgear plans to start releasing patches in the third quarter of the year.
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That's what happens with you trust open sores software. Freetards writing C code is dangerous.
Yeah, we need some of that always safe commercial stuff there Trollerena.
Anyone who gets that reference wins one internet.
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Dude I loved that album!
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You're soaking your fingers in it.
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You're soaking your fingers in it.
Something tells me you don't get the reference.
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There's an anti-virus which can treat that.
NetUSB (USB Over IP) is proprietary software. (Score:5, Informative)
NetUSB by the company KCodes [kcodes.com] is proprietary not open source software.
Hey! (Score:2)
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They confirmed you're a cuckolded sissy.
Only thing worse than being witty is not being witty.
Secrecy in security is not always a good thing. (Score:4, Insightful)
That being said culturally we are being morally bankrupted more by a culture of fear and secrecy than hackers. Gag orders only work to cause public distrust in the long run and so does a lack of transparency.
The vulnerabilities in these devices will not cause problems long term because their code is transparent the same thing cannot be said about closed source devices. Fortunately Microsoft is transparent and does appreciate users telling them about security flaws otherwise I would never use a Windows device again. Naturally the flaws that exist are harder to fix but at least they do try to make their products and OSes bullet proof from the NSA. Touch wood.
In the meantime, (Score:3, Funny)
Turn off the equipment, and take up knitting...
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Being rhetorical, right?
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Protection rackets don't work that way.
Get on board with their new stuff!
zyxel? (Score:2, Insightful)
zyxel is still a thing?
You'd think that brand (name) would have died a decade ago.
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ODDLY enough, I have 2 nas boxes here by zyxel; and the truly odd thing is their model number: nsa-320. I kid you not!
had them running about 2 years, now, with no problems! not the fastest thing but they are tiny, they do support both nfs and smb (most small nas boxes don't do nfs) and it has not crashed or had o/s issues that I've seen. I dont use usb on it, only ethernet in and 1 or 2 drives internally, but its been pretty good for its size and price!
ZyXel in the BBS days (Score:1)
They made *killer* modems in the last days of the BBS era. They were really the only company that could complete (and dominate) over the USR Courier, which was the gold-standard in its many forms from the late '80's to the late '90's. ZyXel was also making the U1496, etc. in Germany at the time.
Now, they seem more than content to sell Linksys-like shrinkwrapped China-junk @ Frys.
RIP. ZyXel (oh, and USR...)
Critical; thrid quarter? lol (Score:5, Insightful)
A critical vulnerability will be fixed some many months from now. Gee, thanks!
I'll stick with my open-source solutions, thanks!
Morons, or maybe I should say "assholes".
Too bad you don't know where FW is downloaded from (Score:2)