Virgin Media Super Hub 2 Router Can Be Hacked
248Virgin Media Super Hub 2 Router Can Be Hacked
There was a warning from virgin media to say over 800,000 virgin media customers need to change the passwords on their routers.
According to Which? more than 800,000 Virgin Media customers have the Super Hub 2 router and so need to change their router AND Wi-Fi passwords if they are still set as default.
So if you're a Virgin Media customer how do I change my password?
Important: Your new password for your router and Wifi should be unique and contain at least 12 characters this should have a mixture of upper and lower case letters and numbers. You can have up tp 63 characters.
For strong passwords use shields up website created by Steve Gibson. This will create a unique password by using the GRC's Ultra High-Security Password Generator: https://www.grc.com/passwords.htm
How to change your Virgin Media Hub's wireless password
https://help.virginmedia.com/system/templates/selfservice/vm/help/customer/locale/en-GB/portal/200300000001000/article/HELP-2395/Changing-your-Virgin-Media-Hub's-wireless-password
How to change your router network password? - Configure Advanced Settings on your Virgin Media Hub
https://help.virginmedia.com/system/templates/selfservice/vm/help/customer/locale/en-GB/portal/200300000001000/article/HELP-2427/Configure-Advanced-Settings-on-your-Virgin-Media-Hub
A spokesperson for Which? and Virgin Media say they believe other ISP companies that use older routers could also be vulnerable as well.
Here is a list of how to change the admin password and change the Wi-Fi password for other ISP company's
Plusnet - https://www.plus.net/help/broadband/router-user-guides/#article-content
TalkTalk - https://help2.talktalk.co.uk/change-your-router-admin-password
and
http://help.talktalk.co.uk/change-wi-fi-name-and-password
BT - http://bt.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/10990/~/how-can-i-set-up-or-change-the-admin-password-on-my-bt-hub%3F
and http://bt.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/14110/~/how-do-i-change-the-wi-fi-password-on-my-bt-hub%3F
EE - http://ee.co.uk/help/phones-and-device/home-broadband/bright-box-wireless-router/bright-box-advanced-user-guides/bright-box-router-change-admin-password
and
http://ee.co.uk/help/phones-and-device/home-broadband/bright-box-wireless-router/bright-box-wifi-guides/bright-box-router-change-wireless-network-name
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