NetGear's Back Door

NetGear's Back Door. A BugTraq report claims that certain WG602 units from NetGear have an unavoidable backdoor password for administration: A few days ago, we linked to news that Linksys's WRT54G had certain firmware releases that left remote administration turned on. Now a report says that it's likely that a username and password that's available on the remote and local network interfaces by default (and which apparently can't be turned off) bedevils the NetGear WG602 in at least one firmware release. [link via The Security Mentor]… [Wi-Fi Networking News]

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