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Huawei 3G/4G USB sticks put users' security at risk
Topic Started: Mar 16 2013, 06:15 PM (260 Views)
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Huawei 3G/4G USB sticks put users' security at risk

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Source: Uli Ries At the Black Hat Europe conference that is currently in progress, Russian security expert Nikita Tarakanov has presented the results of his analysis of the driver software that Huawei ships with its 3G/4G USB sticks. According to the researcher, the various components – drivers, configuration software, update mechanisms – are all of insufficient quality.

The central update server was identified as a massive attack vector by Tarakanov: the Huawei software installs an application and driver auto-update component on every computer. The researcher said that the service in question will contact a server in the Netherlands and query it for updates every 15 minutes. Apparently, the web server is still running on Microsoft's outdated Internet Information Server (IIS) version 6.0, which is part of Windows Server 2003. Tarakanov pointed out that whoever hacked that machine could infect millions of computers worldwide with malicious software


More here: http://www.h-online.com/security/news/item/Huawei-3G-4G-USB-sticks-put-users-security-at-risk-1823894.html
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