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Time Warner Testing Fix for Hole in its Routers

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After one of its customers discovered a security hole big enough to drive a truck through, Time Warner issued a temporary patch for its SMC8014 cable modem – wireless router. A permanent fix is being worked on as we speak.

Time Warner has rolled out a temporary patch and is testing a permanent fix for a security hole in a combination cable modem/Wi-Fi router that could allow anyone to access the private network of its customers, snoop on sensitive data, and direct customers to malicious Web sites.
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I am so glad I don't have to use their routers unlike some customers. Being forced to rent and use one of their modems is bad enough.
 
OMG you can disable the admin with JavaScript... my cat can write javascript :)
I think most intelligent people run a router of sorts behind their cable modem anyway. I would never use the wifi straight out of one of those. Cheap China crap router made by the lowest bidder.
 
CaptNumbNutz said:
I am so glad I don't have to use their routers unlike some customers. Being forced to rent and use one of their modems is bad enough.
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You should double check that. I have Time Warner in upstate New York. I have had my own router and modem for the past 6 or 7 years. No rental fees FTW.
 
SuicidalGoat said:
You should double check that. I have Time Warner in upstate New York. I have had my own router and modem for the past 6 or 7 years. No rental fees FTW.
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Aye - all the cable company needs to connect your own cablemodem to their service is the cablemodem's MAC ID. Don't let them tell you otherwise.

I'm using my own Linksys CM100 cablemodem and Dlink DIR-655 Extreme router. It's a gigantic step up from Comcast issued Netgear cablemodem/router all-in-one unit that gets super hot and cut out all the time.

I had to keep asking them to put another person on the line that knows what they're talking about until the 4th or 5th guy said the others were pencil pushers and didn't know what they were talking about. The tech let me use my own modem and sent me a pre-stamped box to ship my Netgear unit back to them (even though they were only a half a mile away lol).
 
I wonder if it's only the wifi model, I don't have wifi. I wish this model has a pass through mode because I don't even use it for routing, but they don't.
 
SuicidalGoat said:
You should double check that. I have Time Warner in upstate New York. I have had my own router and modem for the past 6 or 7 years. No rental fees FTW.
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Azhar said:
I had to keep asking them to put another person on the line that knows what they're talking about until the 4th or 5th guy said the others were pencil pushers and didn't know what they were talking about. The tech let me use my own modem and sent me a pre-stamped box to ship my Netgear unit back to them (even though they were only a half a mile away lol).
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I will have to double check again...I guess I gave up on the 3rd pencil pusher tech who said they didn't allow non time warner modems on their network. I've been told BS reasons from compatibility issues to people hacking them to get unpaid for speeds.

Sounds like I just need to get the 4th or 5th tech down the line who didn't drink the kool-aid.:D

Thanks guys.
 
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