Mobile broadband modems seen as easy targets for attackers

Minimalist · Aug 6, 2014

Much of the market for these devices is dominated by two manufacturers, Huawei and ZTE. And many of them are sold directly to carriers, who resell them to end users. The modems themselves typically run embedded Linux, and because they’re meant to be single-user devices, they usually don’t require any authentication to use. Security researcher Andreas Lindh identified several different attacks that work against models from both Huawei and ZTE, none of which is too difficult to pull off, he said.
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http://threatpost.com/mobile-broadband-modems-seen-as-easy-targets-for-attackers

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