FREE zero-day for every reader: AT&T's DirecTV kit has a root hole – and no one wants to patch it

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AT&T's DirecTV wireless kit has an embarrassing vulnerability in its firmware that can be trivially exploited by miscreants and malware to install hidden backdoors on the home network equipment, according to a security researcher.…

via The Register - Data Centre: Networks
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