Verizon FiOS Quantum Router Advisory: Updates Pulled MAC Authentication, Bricking Those Devices
Last edited Thu Mar 7, 2019, 07:34 PM - Edit history (1)
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In this day of security exposures, Verizon is taking leaps backwards in securing their clients.
1) They violated the first principal of router security. They force all router userids to 'admin'
2) They store all router configuration information on their website, probably in some unsecured cloud storage. This includes your WPA-2 keys, you know... the shit that you are supposed to keep private.
3) They just performed a firmware update, which pulled user's ability to secure devices by MAC Address.
The problem with #3 is that this was an untested patch, that removed the MAC Address Filtering option, but at the same time, orphaned router code is now denying all of the devices that were being filtered. Somewhere, a sticky bit is no longer being set to allow a MAC address.
This might require performing a Factory Reset on your router to gain access to those devices again.
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So, if you have Verizon FiOS and all of a sudden all of your MAC filtered devices fail to connect, you might have been subject to this untested patch that essentially bricks your wifi devices until a reset is performed. When it comes back, you will still be unable to perform MAC filtering.
UPDATE: I performed a factory reset, and guess what I found now? They weakened the encryption key standards back to 2010!
They no longer accept: Less than, greater than, single quote, double quote, percent sign, semi-colon, left paren, right paren, And sign, plus sign, tilde and the squiggly above the tab key.
Now I have to update 12 devices to retrograde them.
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