Re:FCC Proposes Voluntary Security Labels for IoT Most Compa...
by unethical_ban on Friday September 08, 2023 @12:47PM
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Can you give an example of a consumer router that does not provide a default deny inbound (tonight in noun, according to voice transcribe) for IPv6 traffic? I'm not arguing with you, I'm curious. As a network and security guy, it seems like step zero in IPv6 security to have a default deny inbound firewall rule to make up for the lack of NAT.
Re:FCC Proposes Voluntary Security Labels for IoT Most Compa...
by riskable on Friday September 08, 2023 @03:27PM
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I've never seen one that did but I've only looked at IPv6 on Netgear and TP-LINK routers. Let's try the other route: Find a consumer router that both hands out IPv6 addresses and blocks inbound IPv6 traffic by default.
Re:FCC Proposes Voluntary Security Labels for IoT Most Compa...
by NoZebra120vClip on Friday September 08, 2023 @04:21PM
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There was a CVE for my router which permitted some sort of traffic over IPv6 that should've been blocked. IIRC, it was some sort of malicious firmware update vector, actually. Good times.
I found out retroactively after my router had been pwned and was acting as some sort of shady DNS server. I'll never actually know the method by which it was compromised, but I made a few educated guesses.
The truth is that there's always other ways to you find the IPv6 address of various devices inside a home. Many of them will happily tell you if you just send out the right broadcast (e.g. zeroconf) or they connect to services on the Internet that can be spoofed or just have generally terrible security (e.g. the addresses of all devices are publicly discoverable).
Another fun way to find these devices is buying up dead domain names (e.g. because the company no longer exists) and setting up services that auto-hack the insecure devices once they can finally "phone home" again due to the malicious domain suddenly coming back online. This kind of hack works regardless of firewall rules (assuming the device is allowed to "phone home" at all).