It’s been nearly 9 months since news broke that all Eircom wireless broadband connections had what I would call a major security flaw.
To penetrate any of these networks - all you need is the SSID (e.g. eircom4506 3345) and a little tool such as Damo’s Eircom WEP key generation tool. Armed with this you could have FREE internet access and unlimited download capabilities at the expense of someone else.
Yet after all this time, Eircom seem to have done nothing to patch this glaring hole. Yes, they released a simple press release, recommending that you change the password on your router – but in fairness, how many of Eircoms customers would actually know how to do this?
Eircom should be doing a lot more about this in my opinion, it’s gone on way too long now.
#1 by Peter at July 27th, 2008
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Thanks eircom! I have my choice of Broadband in my area.. long may it last
peter
#2 by B Monabury at March 6th, 2009
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Interesting – The attached article outlines the fact that even though a user may have ‘upgraded’ the default WEP security – a hacker may have already compromised a system and opened a ‘backdoor’ – Based on that how can eircom ‘police’ the p2p and mp3 issues ..and possibly more serious issues! when it can be legally argued that the broadband connection was breached !
http://www.kerryman.ie/news/your-computer-is-at-the-mercy-of-hackers-1660476.html
#3 by Buzz at November 20th, 2009
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The link Damo’s wep tool appears to be gone, i am trying to get the app back on my phone after my son was good enough to put my phone into a cup of tea, has anyone still got the program?
cheers
#4 by Eircom = notgood at November 24th, 2009
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Its still available here:
http://www.mininova.org/tor/924785