After reading about recent Comcastic issues on the FP, I was thinking... don't most modems have diagnostic data available somehow? Classicly, I recall going to 192.168.100.1 to access these settings.

A severe security flaw in the implementation of the SNMP protocol allows an attacker to take over at least 58 cable modem models, according to a team of researchers. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE ...

Cable modems sold by two manufacturers expose a wide variety of sensitive information over SNMP, including usernames and passwords, WEP keys and SSIDs. Researchers who discovered the vulnerabilities ...

Hundreds of thousands of internet gateway devices around the world, primarily residential cable modems, are vulnerable to hacking because of a serious weakness in their Simple Network Management ...

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In all of the cases, the devices allow the extraction of user authentication data via the read-only community string of public information. Rapid7 researchers Matthew Kienow and Deral Heiland were ...

Hundreds of thousands of internet gateway devices around the world, primarily residential cable modems, are vulnerable to hacking because of a serious weakness in their Simple Network Management ...