Novatel will provide a patch going forward. About Press Copyright Contact us Creators Advertise Developers Terms Privacy Policy & Safety How YouTube works Test new features Press Copyright Contact us Creators. Any data received or sent through MiFi is secure.
No malware remains on MiFi when the user disconnects from the malicious site.
In this instance, the user location data is visible only when the user is connected to the malicious site and GPS is activated. The exception to this is location data such as GPS. The nature of the threat is better characterized by the ability of the hacker to change MiFi settings, only when connected to the malicious site, and does not provide access to the user's personal data. There are other CGI settings not published for MiFi that are accessible only when a user surfs to a malicious web site and stays connected to that site. Most of these are openly published by Novatel. MiFi has CGI parameters that are intentionally programmable so that developers can read or change MiFi settings and build browser based widgets.
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The full statement after the break if you're inclined to read it. The statement also clarifies that a user's data will not be exposed via this hack, and that the company is working on a patch. Update: We've received a note from a Novatel representative indicating that the CGI parameters the device uses for configuration were designed to be "intentionally programmable" to ease remote setup. Time for another firmware update, perhaps? A factory reset fixes it all, of course, but doesn't do anything to alleviate the apparently shoddy security mechanisms at play here. A hack that is both very nasty and easy to execute has been shown which would, most troublingly, allow a malicious page to modify the MiFi settings on behalf of the user, possibly disabling security or even locking out the owner of the router, as shown in a quick demonstration video after the break. We've personally experienced the joys of portable wireless routers like Novatel's MiFi, little things that do the 3G talkin' for you, but from what we're seeing here current users may be about to experience something altogether different: fear.
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