Some routers vulnerable to remote hacking
Several DSL routers from different manufacturers contain a guessable hard-coded password that allows the devices to be accessed with a hidden administrator account.
According to an alert issued Tuesday by the CERT Coordination Center (CERT/CC) at Carnegie Mellon University, the affected device models are: Asus DSL-N12E, Digicom DG-5524T, Observa Telecom RTA01N, Philippine Long Distance Telephone (PLDT) SpeedSurf 504AN and ZTE ZXV10 W300.
All of the devices have an admin password in the form "XXXXairocon" -- where XXXX are the last four characters of the device's physical MAC address, CERT/CC said.
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