BT, Sky, Talktalk Warning

[Johnnytoxic]

Although the chances are slim of it happening to you, be assured that the default passwords on these routers are easily brute forcible now.

If you have not changed it yet, I recommend you do so.

 

[Johnnytoxic]

The WPA password.

8 characters uppercase OR lowercase
BT and TalkTalk also vulnerable

Just two 7970's churning out 160,000 keys per second each could brute force one in 8 days.

Just a heads up to be aware. With GPU power also increasing these times will get shorter and shorter. Most people don't tend to change the default password.

 

[Johnnytoxic]

I'm on TalkTalk but don't use their supplied router, I should be O.K right? There's currently no password on mine, it asks you for a password but you just click submit and it logs you in.

Your on about the Admin password.

I'm on about the WPA wireless key.